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Documentation for Bamboo 4.0.x. Documentation for earlier versions of Bamboo is available too. 
A Bamboo agent is a service that provides capabilities to run job builds. There are two types of Bamboo agents:
- local agents run as part of the Bamboo server.
- remote agents run on computers, other than the Bamboo server, that run the remote agent tool.
An elastic agent is a remote agent that runs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Local agents run in the server's process, i.e. in the same JVM as the server. Each remote agent runs in its own process, i.e. has its own JVM.)
Each agent has a defined set of capabilities and can only run builds for jobs whose requirements match the agent's capabilities.
For more information, see:
Editing an agent's name or description
To edit an agent's name or description:
- Navigate to the desired agent, as described on Viewing an agent.
- Click Edit Details.
- Update the details for the agent.
- Click Save.
Editing an agent's capabilities
To edit an agent's capabilities, see:
- Configuring an agent-specific executable capability
- Configuring an agent-specific JDK capability
- Configuring an agent-specific custom capability
Screenshot: Editing the details of an agent
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