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Agents

An agent is an internal background process operating on the server that runs activities on a periodic basis. In a multinode cluster, an agent can run on multiple nodes.

Agents are implemented through two facilities:

You can modify the behavior of an agent listed in an agents rule in a locked ruleset (for example, any of the standard Pega Platform agents rules) by editing one or more of the generated agent rules or agent schedule data instances.