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Mechanism

Planning

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choosing a whole sequence of steps in advance of doing them

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell issearch × 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.

SearchPlanningAgent

Before it: Search

Unlocks: Agent

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

bookArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th ed.)Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig · 2020

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Order · 2
requiresSearchAlgorithm
must come beforeAgentSystem

This page is a projection of one node in src/data/concepts.ts. It has no prose file of its own — 230 declared edges produce all 236 of these pages. Edit an edge and both endpoints change.