Agent loop engineering¶
All topics · Alphabetical index
Concepts¶
- Observe-decide-act loop; action-result feedback; next-action selection
- Explicit task state; objectives; completion criteria
- Stop conditions; maximum steps; token budgets; time budgets; cost budgets
- Progress detection; repeated-action detection; stuck-loop detection
- No-progress termination; partial completion; handoff
- Replanning; recoverable failure; terminal failure
- Retry policy; recovery policy; tool failure recovery
- Checkpointing; resumability; durable state
- Interruptibility; user steering; cancellation propagation
- Context compaction; objective preservation; verified completion
Further reading¶
Reference links for this topic.
“Loop engineering” is an emerging umbrella term; the execution mechanisms listed here are the concrete study topics.