requirements

Definition

The conditions a system is supposed to satisfy, borrowed from software engineering. The term shows up in agent work where a natural-language description of what is wanted must be turned into something that runs and passes tests. Requirements sit a level above a specification: they state what stakeholders need, while a specification pins down system behavior precisely. In practice they arrive incomplete or ambiguous, and resolving that is much of the difficulty.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Agentic ESOpt — Drop Backprop, Jiggle the Weights, and Train Long-Horizon LLM AgentsAgentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements