Reliability at the core: five ground rules for building an agent loop

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Every model call is a round, and every round, tool call and tool result is persisted in the conversation history, which is then sent with every new round. I marked every table cell from which the loop cannot make another model call. Separate the loop runner from the host Reliability lens: What does my agent loop take for granted, and who guarantees it?

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