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Mechanism

Agent loop

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think, act, look at the result, repeat until the job is done

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isact × L6. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointAgent loopnothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

Examples of it: ReAct.

It is part of: Agent harness.

It is made of: Loop policy.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

33From Answer to Actionact 8 · The Agent Infrastructure

Where it comes from

Every connection

All 3 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 3
is part ofAgent harnessSystem
has as an instanceReActAlgorithm
has as a partLoop policyHeuristic

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