**The "Agentic Bible" concludes with this
While the "Bible" itself is a 465-page book rather than a single short research paper, there are several high-quality, "proper" academic and professional papers from 2025 and 2026 that serve as definitive foundational texts for the current agentic landscape: Foundational Research Papers
An AI Agent is a system capable of perceiving its environment, reasoning about goals, and taking actions to achieve those goals autonomously.