# Multi-step AI agents: what they are & how they work

DevFeed: [Multi-step AI agents: what they are & how they work](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multi-step-ai-agents-what-they-are-how-they-work-4832.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://redis.io/blog/multi-step-ai-agents/>)

Author: Jim Allen Wallace

Published: 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Redis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redis-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [tech-de](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech-de.md>)

## AI overview

A guide to multi-step AI agents, explaining how LLM-driven systems chain reasoning, tool actions, and observations to complete a goal. It also introduces agentic RAG and discusses production reliability concerns.

## Source excerpt

You ask a chatbot to summarize a long email thread, and it hands back a tidy paragraph. Useful, but that's a single-step system--one prompt, one response, done. A multi-step AI agent works differently. Ask it the same question, and it can check your or...