AI Agents in Spring Boot: Building Autonomous Workflows with Spring AI Your Spring Boot application already talks to databases, APIs, and message queues. Now imagine it could think, decide, and act on its own. That is exactly what AI Agents do. Most developers stop at chatbots, send a prompt, get a response. But a chatbot has no memory, no tools, and no goals. An AI Agent is different. It receives an objective, breaks it into steps, calls your Java methods when needed, evaluates the result, and keeps going until the job is done. With Spring AI, you do not need Python, LangChain, or a completely new tech stack. You build agents right inside your existing Spring Boot project, using the same annotations, beans,