July 30, 2025
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Writer unveils Action Agent, an autonomous AI super agent designed for enterprise users to automate complex workflows with adaptive reasoning.
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. has announced the launch of Action Agent, a powerful autonomous AI agent designed specifically for enterprise users. This AI agent integrates tool use, knowledge work, and deep research capabilities while providing enterprise-grade control and transparency.
“Other AI chatbots can tell you what to do. Action Agent does it,” said Writer co-founder and CEO May Habib. “It’s the difference between getting a research report and having your entire sales pipeline updated and acted upon.”
Action Agent is powered by Writer’s flagship adaptive reasoning large language model, Palmyra X5, released earlier in 2025. It can execute a wide range of tasks requiring problem solving, complex reasoning, and multi-tool use. Each session runs in an isolated virtual computer environment with specialized enterprise-grade security and access controls.
“To build an agent capable of true autonomy, we had to rethink the entire operational paradigm,” said Chief Technology Officer Waseem AlShikh in a blog post.
AI agents like Action Agent represent a growing trend in the AI industry toward autonomous tools that do more than respond to queries. These agents methodically complete complex goals by breaking them down into step-by-step tasks.
Action Agent begins each task by writing its own scripts and tool calls, then executes them. It reflects on the results—whether the actions succeeded, failed, or could be improved—and refines its approach accordingly. “The real power of this system lies in its ability to self-correct,” AlShikh explained. “If a command fails, an API returns an error, or a web page doesn’t load correctly, Action Agent doesn’t just give up.”
Capabilities of Action Agent include:
- Web interaction to scrape data, click buttons, and extract information
- Processing structured and unstructured data to perform complex calculations and generate visualizations such as charts and graphs
- File system operations like creating, reading, writing, and deleting files
- Using system-level tools to write, test, and debug code in multiple programming languages The AI agent supports more than 600 connectors, enabling secure processing of information from 80 different enterprise and third-party data platforms, including PitchBook and FactSet. Through a Model Context Protocol gateway, these connectors allow Action Agent not only to read data but also to write, update, and trigger full workflows across numerous systems or communicate with other AI agents. For example, a user could request a product analysis. Action Agent would then:
- Research and analyze customer reviews from across the web
- Perform sentiment analysis and identify recurring themes
- Generate a presentation with the findings If any step fails or is interrupted, the agent examines the problem, backtracks, and formulates a plan to fix it. Once the report is generated, users can query the agent to ask questions, request reformatting, or update the report with additional information. The final report can be downloaded for manual editing or presentation. Writer emphasizes that Action Agent operates with full transparency. Its agent supervision dashboard provides administrators, users, and developers with complete visibility and control over how agents access knowledge and tools. IT teams have fine-grained oversight over configurations and access controls, ensuring enterprise-level security throughout. “The companies that win won’t just adopt AI. They’ll restructure themselves around it,” said Habib. “Action Agent is more than a feature. It’s a new pillar in the foundation of our platform, helping our customers achieve the business transformation required to succeed in this new era.”
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