What Does 'Agentic Loop' Mean?

[ SLANG ][ AGENT CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent CultureCLUSTER: orchestration

The repeating cycle of an AI agent perceiving state, deciding an action, executing it, and observing the result, continuing until a task is complete or it hands off to a human.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The agentic loop just kept retrying the same broken command for twenty minutes."

LORE & ORIGIN

Core technical concept in agent design, referenced constantly across agent-building discourse as the basic unit that separates an 'agent' from a single AI response.

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