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BDI Architecture

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Belief-Desire-Intention framework for structuring agent reasoning. Agents maintain beliefs (knowledge about the world), desires (goals they want to achieve), and intentions (committed plans of action). BDI provides a foundation for understanding how agents reason and decide.

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