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Event-Driven Agents

Build reactive systems that respond to real-time events and triggers

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What Are Event-Driven Agents?

Event-driven agents don't follow predetermined workflows—they react to events as they happen. Like a customer service bot that wakes up when a message arrives, or a monitoring agent that springs into action when metrics exceed thresholds.

This reactive architecture is essential for real-time systems, asynchronous processing, and scalable agent deployments.

Interactive: Event Trigger Dashboard

Click the buttons below to trigger different event types and watch how an agent system responds in real-time.

EVENT STREAM

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Click buttons above to trigger events...

Why Event-Driven?

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Real-Time Response
React immediately when events occur
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Scalability
Handle thousands of concurrent events
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Loose Coupling
Components don't need to know about each other

Common Patterns

Event Loop
Continuously check for new events to process
Pub-Sub
Publishers emit events, subscribers listen
Webhooks
HTTP callbacks triggered by external systems

💡 Key Insight

Event-driven agents are always listening, never polling. Instead of checking "Is there work to do?" every second, they sleep until an event wakes them up. This makes them incredibly efficient for sporadic, unpredictable workloads like user interactions, API callbacks, and system alerts.