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Agenda (meeting)
An agenda, or meeting agenda, is a list of the items of business to be considered at a meeting, helping focus discussion and prepare participants.
Agenda 2010
Agenda 2010 was a package of German economic and labor-market reforms announced by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on 14 March 2003, centered on the Hartz laws.
Agenda 21
Agenda 21, also known as UN Agenda 21, is a non-binding United Nations action plan for sustainable development, adopted by 172 governments in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
Agenda 47
Agenda 47 is Donald Trump's official 2024 campaign policy platform, a series of short videos on his website named for his becoming the 47th president; it overlaps with but is distinct from the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025.
Agenda-setting theory
Agenda-setting theory: media-effects theory from McCombs and Shaw's 1968 Chapel Hill study and 1972 POQ article, holding media issue emphasis shapes public issue salience; spans attribute and network levels, versus framing and priming.
Agender
Agender: a gender identity meaning "without gender", little or no connection to gender systems. Related to genderless, gender neutral, neutrois; placed under nonbinary and trans umbrellas; 15% of nonbinary youth in a 2021 US survey.
Agenesis of the corpus callosum
Agenesis of the corpus callosum (AgCC, ACC): congenital absence or partial absence of the brain's interhemispheric fiber bundle, occurring in about 1:4,000 births, diagnosed by imaging, mostly of unknown cause, with variable cognitive outcomes.
Agenesis of the superior vena cava
Agenesis of the superior vena cava is an uncommon congenital malformation in which the vessel returning blood from the upper body to the heart is missing.
Agenesis of vas deferens
Agenesis of the vas deferens (CAVD; CBAVD, CUAVD) is a congenital absence of the sperm-carrying duct, usually CFTR-related, causing obstructive male infertility and often associated with renal agenesis.
Agenor Linea
Agenor Linea is a ~1,500 km bright band and band-like strike-slip fault on Jupiter's moon Europa, in the southern hemisphere, named for Europa's mythological father, with a three-stage dilation and right-lateral shear history and possible recent activity.
Agenoria (locomotive)
Agenoria is an early British 0-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1829 by Foster, Rastrick & Co of Stourbridge for the Shutt End Colliery Railway, and is preserved at the National Railway Museum in York.
Agent (film)
Agent (ఏజెంట్) is a 2023 Telugu spy action thriller directed by Surender Reddy, starring Akhil Akkineni, Mammootty, and Dino Morea; a box-office disaster released on SonyLIV only in March 2025.
Agent (video game)
Agent was a cancelled Rockstar open-world espionage game, announced at E3 2009 as a PlayStation 3 exclusive by Rockstar North, first mentioned in 2007, developed through about five iterations, and quietly removed from Rockstar's website in 2021.
Agent 355
Agent 355, from Culper Spy Ring code for "lady" (not a personal codename), is a supposed female American Revolutionary War spy. Only one 1779 Woodhull letter mentions her; her identity and even her espionage are unproven.
Agent 47
Agent 47 is the fictional genetically engineered clone protagonist of IO Interactive's Hitman stealth series, debuting in Hitman: Codename 47 (2000); the bald, bar-coded assassin works for the ICA with handler Diana Burnwood.
Agent 64: Spies Never Die
Agent 64: Spies Never Die is a retro spy FPS by solo developer Replicant D6, released 11 August 2026 on Steam; a GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark homage with 14 John Walter missions, Paradox cheats, and split-screen or 8-player online multiplayer.
Agent Capital
Agent Capital is a majority woman-owned life sciences venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Geeta Vemuri and Preston Noon, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, investing in therapeutics from preclinical to commercial stages.
Agent Carter (film)
Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013) is a 15-minute Marvel Studios short film, the fourth Marvel One-Shot, directed by Louis D'Esposito, starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter recovering the Zodiac serum in 1946; released on the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray and led to the Agent Carter TV series.
Agent Carter (TV series)
Marvel's Agent Carter is an ABC period action-drama (2015-2016, two seasons, 16 episodes) starring Hayley Atwell as SSR agent Peggy Carter in postwar 1940s New York and Los Angeles; adapted from the 2013 Marvel One-Shot, created by Butters and Fazekas, canceled in May 2016.
Agent Carter season 1
Agent Carter season 1: eight-episode ABC period spy drama (Jan 6–Feb 24, 2015) set in 1946 New York, starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter clearing Howard Stark of treason; 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Agent Cody Banks
Agent Cody Banks is a 2003 MGM teen spy comedy directed by Harald Zwart, starring Frankie Muniz as a teenage CIA agent, with Hilary Duff and Angie Harmon; it grossed $47.3 million in the US and spawned a 2004 sequel.
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is a 2004 American action-comedy sequel directed by Kevin Allen, starring Frankie Muniz as teen CIA agent Cody Banks, who goes undercover in a London youth orchestra to recover a stolen mind-control device from rogue agent Victor Diaz (Keith Allen).
Agent evaluation
Agent evaluation is the measurement of whether an LLM-based agent can accomplish a user's task through sequences of actions and tool interactions, graded by end-to-end success rather than single-answer accuracy.
Agent from Above (乩身)
Agent from Above (乩身) is a 2026 Netflix Taiwanese fantasy folk-action series, adapted from Xing Zi's novel and comic, starring Ko Chen-tung as a spirit medium serving the Third Crown Prince; 8 episodes, NT$180 million budget, premiered April 2, 2026.
Agent Galahad
Agent Galahad is a Round Table code name in the Kingsman films, held first by Polly Wilkins, then Harry Hart (Colin Firth), and later Eggsy (Taron Egerton).
Agent harness
An agent harness, also called agent scaffolding, is the runtime infrastructure that turns a large language model into an agent by managing tools, state, and approvals.
Agent Kim Reactivated
Agent Kim Reactivated (김부장, Manager Kim) is a 2026 SBS action-thriller K-drama adapted from a Naver webtoon, starring So Ji-sub as a hidden former North Korean agent rescuing his kidnapped daughter; it peaked at 23.1% and topped Netflix's non-English chart.
Agent memory
Agent memory is persistent storage and management of information that gives AI agents continuity across sessions, beyond a fixed context window, originating with the MemGPT paper of October 2023.
Agent Orange
Agent Orange: U.S. military herbicide (equal parts 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, TCDD-contaminated) sprayed in Vietnam 1962–1971 under Operation Ranch Hand; 19 million gallons of defoliants, lasting health and environmental legacy.
Agent provocateur
Agent provocateur: an undercover state or private operative who infiltrates a group and incites illegal acts to discredit or prosecute it; French term, distinct from entrapment, documented from 19th-century Europe to the UK spycops scandal.