ARCHITECTURE REFERENCE · MAY 2026
Computer & Agent Studio
A technical primer on how Computer agents are built, layered, and deployed at enterprise scale with Agent Studio. Explore the agent, skills, and tools layers – and the memory, permissions, and observability that support them.
Understand the layers before you build
Computer agents combine guidance, reusable skills, and deterministic tools. The reference explains how those layers interact, how workflows encode repeatable execution, and how organizational context supports reasoning.
The architecture separates strategic decisions from domain-specific capabilities and atomic operations. Skills package instructions and tools so capabilities can be reused without rebuilding the entire agent.
Beyond the execution flow, the paper examines persistent memory, permissions, reliability, human-in-the-loop evaluation, and observability – the operational controls needed to run agents as infrastructure.
Three layers, working in sequence
Layer | Responsibility | How work flows |
|---|---|---|
01 · Agent | Receives business objectives and analyzes context. | Chooses which skills to deploy and orchestrates the overall workflow. |
02 · Skills | Packages domain-specific business logic and procedures. | Combines contextual understanding with reusable capabilities; can invoke deterministic workflows. |
03 · Tools | Performs atomic operations and integrations. | Handles data processing, API calls, and specialized actions within the applicable permissions. |
WHAT’S INSIDE
Memory, execution, and enterprise controls
Memory and context
Give reasoning a connected foundation.
Explore memory for AI agents, organizational relationships, context preservation, and the risks of agent sprawl.
Skills, tools, and workflows
Separate adaptive decisions from repeatable execution.
Understand reusable skills, atomic tools, and deterministic workflows with approvals, retries, permissions, and audit trails.
Governance and operations
Run agents like infrastructure.
Review permission inheritance, reliability, human-in-the-loop evaluation, unified observability, and debugging.
Understand the architecture. Build with confidence.
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