Agent Engineering
Finite-State Machine
A model that describes a system using a finite set of named states and rules for responding to events. It makes permitted behavior explicit instead of relying on scattered flags. The model may carry additional data, but its state labels alone do not prove that external actions succeeded.
Also called: FSM
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