An Autonomous Agent (AA) is a special address (account) on the ledger that acts according to a program associated with it. Its behavior is similar to that of a vending machine that receives coins and data entered on a keypad and in response, releases a cup of coffee, plays a song, or does whatever it was programmed to do.

​Getting started developer guide​

​Introduction to Autonomous Agents (announcement post on Medium)

Oscript — the language of autonomous agents

Autonomous Agents are written in Oscript — a new programming language developed specifically for this purpose. The language is very simple and any developer who has experience in curly-brace languages such as JavaScript, PHP, Java, C/C++, etc should not have any difficulty learning it.

Some of the features of the language:

• convenient access to variables that describe the state of the ledger and the triggering (requesting, activating) transaction received. That’s what makes the language domain-specific. In particular, the following variables are available:

• amounts received in the triggering transaction;

• data received in the triggering transaction;

• who sent the triggering transaction;

• state variables of the current and other AAs;

• data feeds;

• attestations;

• balances of this and other AAs;

• information about assets;

• arithmetic operations;

• logical operations (AND, OR, etc);

• comparisons;

• concatenations;

• some math functions;

• some cryptography functions for calculating hashes and validating signatures created off-chain;

• branching with if/else;

• no loops (just iteration methods for objects and arrays);

• no recursive functions;

• scalar and object data types;

• generation of deterministic pseudo-random number from seed.

​Oscript language reference for Autonomous Agents​

AA code can be deployed with Oscript​ (mainnet)​ editor and Oscript​ (testnet)​ editor. There is also a extension for VS Code and Autonomous Agent testkit.