agentless

English

Etymology

From agent +‎ -less.

Adjective

agentless (not comparable)

1. Without an agent.
   • 2007 May 31, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com .

   • 2022, Gineesh Madapparambath, Ansible for Real-Life Automation, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:

     Ansible is agentless and you do not need to install any kind of agents on the managed nodes.

Derived terms

• agentlessness