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Agent loop fundamentals: planning, tools, and stop conditions
Build agent loops with explicit stop conditions, tool budgets, and observable steps — or watch them spiral.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2plan-act loop
- 3tool budget
- 4stop condition
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Section 1
The premise
Agent loops without explicit stop conditions and tool budgets fail expensively; observability is what turns a chaotic loop into a debuggable one.
What AI does well here
- Sketch a plan-act-observe loop with explicit termination.
- Draft tool-budget rules with owner for budget exceptions.
What AI cannot do
- Eliminate the cost of long agent runs.
- Replace runtime observability with logging alone.
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