Agents & Indicators

Understanding agents and indicators is fundamental to using Paygent effectively. They're the building blocks of how Paygent tracks and bills for AI usage.

📖 Real-World Scenario

Meet Sarah, who runs an e-commerce AI platform. Her system has a customer support chatbot, a product recommendation engine, and an email generator. Each of these does different things, costs different amounts, and provides different value. How does she track them separately?

💡 Solution

With Paygent, Sarah defines each AI component as an Agent and each action as a Indicator:

Tracking Agents and Indicators

1// Customer Support Chatbot (Agent)
2await paygentClient.sendUsage(
3  'customer-support-bot',     // Agent ID
4  'customer-123',              // Customer ID
5  'message-sent',              // Indicator (action performed)
6  usageData
7);
8
9// Product Recommendation Engine (Agent)
10await paygentClient.sendUsage(
11  'recommendation-engine',     // Different Agent
12  'customer-123',
13  'recommendations-generated', // Different Indicator
14  usageData
15);
16
17// Email Generator (Agent)
18await paygentClient.sendUsage(
19  'email-generator',           // Another Agent
20  'customer-123',
21  'email-composed',            // Another Indicator
22  usageData
23);

Now Sarah can see exactly how much each AI component costs and which actions her customers use most.

✅ Result

Sarah can now track that her chatbot handles 10,000 messages/month, recommendations generate 50,000 suggestions, and the email tool creates 2,000 emails. She bills customers accurately based on what they actually use.

🤖 What is an Agent?

An Agent is a distinct AI component or workflow in your application. Think of it as "who is doing the work."

•Customer support chatbot

•Code review assistant

•Content generator

•Data analyzer

⚡ What is a Indicator?

A Indicator is a specific action performed by an agent. Think of it as "what work was done."

•message-sent

•article-generated

•code-reviewed

•report-created

Best Practice

Choose descriptive agent names and indicator names that clearly describe what's happening. This makes your usage data easy to understand and analyze later.

Good: customer-support-bot + message-sent

Avoid: agent1 + action

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