The agentic loop in plain English

The loop is where the agent earns the name. A model that cannot see what happened after it acts is not running a workflow. It is guessing. The four moves A practical agentic loop has four moves: plan the next step, act through a tool or message, observe the result, then adjust. The loop can be short, like checking one record before drafting an email, or long, like researching vendors across several systems. The key is not that the agent thinks forever. The key is that every action produces evidence. Did the API return the right customer? Did the search…

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