That American agenda your computer will understand (7)
I believe the answer is:
program
'understand' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'that american agenda your computer will' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'american' could be 'am' (abbreviation in some contexts) and 'am' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for program that I've seen before include "Piece of software" , "system of instructions" , "Mechanical actions to be performed" , "Enabling instructions for computer" , "A series of software instructions to a computer" .)