A practitioner read of the two papers that named the agent loop (ReAct 2022, Reflexion 2023): the anatomy of reason-act-observe, why the Observation (not the model) is the hero, the failure modes nobody writes about, and the five disciplines of a loop that earns its answers. Companion to the film In the Loop.
What's inside
- The Shape Under the Hype
- Anatomy of the Loop
- The Loop Learns
- When the Loop Lies Quietly
- Building a Loop That Earns
- Security & Evaluation
- What an Architect Keeps
- Glossary
Read the companion essay to this guide: on the blog ›