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# Agent Workflows

**Agent workflows** are end-to-end use cases which define how the VSS Agent processes requests and coordinates between microservices. Each workflow is optimized for a specific use case.

These workflows are demonstrated through specific **Developer Profiles**, which are docker compose deployments which demonstrate the assembly of various VSS microservices to fulfill specific agent workflows.

**Available Workflows**

| Workflow                                                                 | Developer Profile | Description                                                                                                                                                                               |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Q\&A and Report Generation (Quickstart)](/getting-started/quickstart)   | `base`            | Video retrieval, VLM-based Q\&A, and report generation on short video clips                                                                                                               |
| [Alert Verification](/vision-agent/agent-workflows/alert-verification)   | `alerts`          | Realtime processing of videos using perception (object detection, tracking) and behavior analytics to generate alerts, which are subsequently verified with VLM to reduce false positives |
| [Real-Time Alert](/vision-agent/agent-workflows/real-time-alerts)        | `alerts`          | Continuous processing of video streams through VLM for anomaly detection                                                                                                                  |
| [Video Search](/vision-agent/agent-workflows/search)                     | `search`          | Natural language search across video archives using video embeddings (alpha)                                                                                                              |
| [Video Summarization](/vision-agent/agent-workflows/video-summarization) | `lvs`             | Analysis and summarization of extended video recordings through chunking and aggregation of dense captions                                                                                |