I haven't seen the definition of an agent, in the paper. Do they differentiate agents from generic online chat interfaces?
Page 2: We define agentic tools or agents as AI tools integrated into an IDE or a terminal that can manipulate the code directly (i.e., excluding web-based chat interfaces)
An agent takes actions. Chat bots only return text.
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Page 2: We define agentic tools or agents as AI tools integrated into an IDE or a terminal that can manipulate the code directly (i.e., excluding web-based chat interfaces)