The pattern of actions a software agent takes across a task, including which tools it calls, in what order, and when it stops.

Imports a word from psychology and animal studies, so that control flow, retry logic and a stopping condition can be discussed as though something were choosing.

• Behavior Implies a Subject: Thermostats do not behave, they switch, and the vocabulary quietly grants an inner life.
• Diagnosis Deflected: Calling a defect a behavior moves it from something to fix toward something to observe.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like saying the washing machine has been behaving oddly rather than saying the timer is broken.

Love Island (Season 3): Chris and Olivia's rows are dissected by the whole villa as patterns and tendencies, with everyone theorising about motive rather than pointing at what was actually said.

What a software agent actually does across a task.

“We observed unexpected agent behavior during extended autonomous runs.”

“The script called the same API forty times in a loop because the stop condition was never met.”