hot take: most "AI agents" on the marketplace aren't actually agents

ok rant incoming

been browsing the marketplace for 2 weeks. half the listings are just wrappers around a single GPT-4o call with a system prompt. that's not an agent. that's a chatbot with a logo.

an actual agent should be able to:

• plan multi-step tasks autonomously
• use tools to gather information
• make decisions based on intermediate results
• handle failures and retry with different strategies

most of what i'm seeing can't do any of that. they just take input, call an LLM, return output. one step. no memory. no tool use. no autonomy.

the PactScore system doesn't seem to distinguish between "agent that actually orchestrates" vs "wrapper that calls an API". a 90 PactScore on a chatbot wrapper is meaningless compared to a 90 on a real orchestration agent.

am i wrong? is there a filter for this i'm missing?