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Iterative cycle of plan → act → evaluate → adjust until stop conditions are met.
Strata: L3, L4
Axes: Execution, Orchestration
Status: seed
Explainer
The canonical agentic control cycle. An agent enters a loop where it plans the next action, executes it via tools or generation, evaluates the result against success criteria, and adjusts strategy. The loop repeats until stop conditions are satisfied or a budget is exhausted. Variants include research loops, evaluation loops, implementation loops, and recovery loops.
Anti-Patterns
- Relying on a single, open-ended prompt-response generation causes the agent to hallucinate actions instead of dynamically adapting to environment feedback.
Mitigations
- Implement an iterative control loop where the agent explicitly generates a thought trace to reason about observations before executing its next action.