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Belief–Desire–Intention Model (BDI)

Belief–Desire–Intention Model is a formal agent architecture that represents an agent’s beliefs, desires, and intentions to capture goal-directed, explainable decision behavior, used in enterprise multiagent systems, automation, and decision-support applications to structure goals, assumptions, and commitments in software agents.

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curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
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CLI

di get-glossary --slug beliefdesireintention-model-bdi

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It sits in a glossary Linked to System Behavior Model, Behavioral Alignment Model, Behavioral Simulation Engine, Intent-Based Networking inDefinedTermSet
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