Autonomous Agents

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.

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