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Agent Loop

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Models are stateless. They process one request, produce a completion, and forget.
They can’t take action, access live data, or coordinate multi-step workflows alone.
Agents solve this by wrapping a model in a runtime system that gives it tools, memory, and a reasoning loop.
Definition: Software program that can interact with its environment, collect data, and use that data to perform self-directed tasks that meet predetermined goals. Humans set goals, but an AI agent independently chooses the best actions, it needs to perform, to achieve those goals.

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