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# Confluent Unveils Streaming Agents to Power Real-Time Agentic AI with Flink
- URL: https://www.theleftshift.com/confluent-unveils-streaming-agents-to-power-real-time-agentic-ai-with-flink/
- Published: 2025-08-20T07:55:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T07:55:20.000Z
- Description: Streaming Agents allow developers to build autonomous agents that adapt and act instantly on live data.
- Author: The Left Shift Bureau
- Tags: Developer's Corner

Confluent Inc., the data streaming leader behind Apache Kafka, has launched *Streaming Agents*, a new capability within Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, aimed at scaling real-time, production-ready agentic AI applications. 

The feature targets industries like financial services, healthcare, and advertising, where time-sensitive decision-making is critical.

Streaming Agents allow developers to build autonomous agents that adapt and act instantly on live data. This marks a shift from experimental generative AI use cases to real-world implementations with tangible ROI.

Built on Kafka and Flink, Streaming Agents support long-running workflows, secure integrations via Model Context Protocol (MCP), and access to APIs, databases, and vector stores. This lets enterprises deploy responsive agents for use cases like anti-money-laundering, RAG, and dark launches—bridging the gap between data, decisions, and action.

> “Agentic AI has become an important element of competitiveness, but what separates enterprises getting real ROI from \[foundation models\] is the ability to contextualize AI with domain-specific data in real time,” said [Andrew Sellers](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjsel/?ref=theleftshift.com), Head of Technology Strategy at Confluent.

> Sellers emphasised the gap between AI model capabilities and the availability of trustworthy, real-time data. “\[Large language models\] aren’t the inhibiting force anymore. What’s missing is contextual, trustworthy, real-time data that agents can use to make decisions,” he added.