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An agent is an internal background process operating on the server that runs activities on a periodic basis. Agents are defined by the Rule-Agent-Queue rule type, and are enabled and scheduled through Data-Agent-Queue data instances. Agents are both autonomous and asynchronous: the activities that they call run individually on their own schedules, and a second activity execution can start before one started earlier completes. In a multinode cluster, an agent can run on multiple nodes.