The Telescript Language Reference from 1995. the concept of "agents" is not new to computer science. people have been working towards this for a long time. feels like neural networks, where the idea is not new, but the ability to marshal compute and software at scale just wasn't there before.

https://blossom.buildtall.systems/d51b291023b01ca4ca7cdca0fa14831e5d69ee44f7109211715ab46aa40d4955.pdf