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Agentic Automation on Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere has been one of the biggest names in RPA for years. These days it also positions itself as an agentic automation provider, built around a product called AI Agent Studio.

What AI Agent Studio is​

AI Agent Studio lets you build goal-driven AI agents that automate work a fixed RPA bot simply can't handle on its own: reading a document and deciding what it means, triaging a support ticket, checking whether a case follows a compliance policy, or recommending a next action. Agents built here are powered by the Process Reasoning Engine (PRE), which handles the reasoning, decides when a human needs to be looped in, and orchestrates across bots, APIs, documents, and even other agents in real time.

Agents built in AI Agent Studio aren't meant to replace Automation Anywhere's existing RPA bots. They typically sit on top of them instead. An agent decides what needs to happen next, then calls an existing bot as one of its tools to actually execute the steps in a legacy system.

Who builds with it​

AI Agent Studio is designed to be usable on day one, without a long IT implementation. Its low-code tools mean both professional developers and citizen (business) users can select a foundation model, connect enterprise data sources, write and optimize prompts, and link them to specific actions. Most teams get a first working version of an agent running in a matter of days.

Where it fits in the platform​

  • AI Agent Studio: where you design and build agents. This is where the tutorials in this section focus.
  • Control Room / Automation Co-Pilot: where agents and bots are deployed, monitored, and governed.
  • AI Guardrails: Automation Anywhere's built-in safety and governance layer, which blocks unsafe agent actions before they happen and keeps behavior aligned with your policies.

Getting access​

Automation Anywhere offers a free Cloud Community Edition you can use to start experimenting with AI Agent Studio without a paid license. It's the fastest way to follow along with the walkthrough in this section.

Next: Core concepts covers the vocabulary you'll need, including agents, skills, and the Process Reasoning Engine, before you build anything.

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