Agent Loop

What is a stopping condition in an agent loop, and why does every agent need one?

What is the ReAct pattern for agents?

What is the Plan and Execute agent pattern, and how does it differ from ReAct?

What is function calling in modern LLM APIs, and how does it support agent loops?

What is an AI agent?

In the agent loop, what counts as an 'action' and how is it different from a thought?

What is an 'agent runtime' and what does it do?

What is the ReAct prompting pattern?

What does the model emit next in this ReAct trace, given the observation just returned?

Order the four phases of a single iteration of a ReAct (Reason + Act) loop in the correct sequence.

How should a production MCP host handle a tool call that exceeds the latency budget?

Explain precisely why a chatbot with persistent memory is not an agent

Describe each step of the agent loop and explain which component, LLM or runtime, is responsible for it

Order the five steps of the canonical agent loop from first to last

Explain the LLM vs runtime split in an agent and why the distinction matters for debugging

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