<!-- TIER:1 -- Configuring AI Agents An AI agent is an LLM-powered import step that processes records through an AI model instead of writing them to an external system. Records flow in, the model processes them according to instructions, and structured output flows back into the pipeline. AI agents handle four concerns: - Prompt design -- the system instruction that defines the model's behavior, goals, and constraints (up to 1,000,000 characters on the built-in providers). The prompt receives each record as context and must produce output that downstream steps can consume - Structured output…