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Chapter 11 of 23 · Level 5 · Building Single Agents

Agent Architectures & Reasoning

The moving parts of an agent, ReAct, plan-and-execute, and self-reflection loops.

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Building a Single Agent Is a Loop With a Goal
A single agent is not clever wiring. It is one loop that plans, acts, remembers, and corrects toward a goal. Its quality is decided by one thing: what you let into the context window.
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