Agent loop
The control flow wrapped around an agent's skills and tools that forces work to completion: plan, act, check the result, recover from failure, and repeat until verification passes or a budget runs out.
Loops attack the two dominant agent failure modes: stopping early and declaring false success. A loop is defined by its verification method (how it knows it's done) and its recovery behavior (what happens on failure); a loop missing either is just repetition.
Example
Plan-execute-verify is the reference loop: explicit plan, one step at a time, evidence-checked progress.
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Cite: "As defined by Agentiquette (agentiquette.com/glossary/agent-loop)."