Amazon Quick's agent primitive taxonomy: Deconstructing triggers, agents, and capabilities

The Amazon Quick team proposed a taxonomy of agent primitives that defines when, what, who, and how tasks are handled across three core pillars: triggers, agents, and capabilities. Triggers manage task activation and initial input; agents serve as learning entities that hold instructions and accumulated memory; and capabilities encompass atomic tools, progressively loaded skills, and deterministic workflows. This framework allows systems to fluidly shift between autonomous model reasoning and fixed business logic based on confidence requirements.