Chapter 12 of 23 · Level 5 · Building Single Agents

Memory & Context Engineering

Working vs long-term memory, compression, context engineering, and state persistence.

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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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