Taxonomy of agentic primitives in AWS Quick

AWS Quick's team describes a taxonomy of agentic primitives built from four questions—When, What, Who, and How—covering triggers (human-initiated, agent-delegated, scheduled, event-driven), agents as persistent learning actors with instructions, capabilities, and learned context, and capabilities spanning tools, skills, and workflows. The post argues skills and workflows retain value independent of model improvements, with skills able to crystallize into workflows and workflows dissolve back into skills, and illustrates how a single request like a daily Slack digest can be met at different points on a confidence contract.