🔁 Agents – Maitreya

Tool-using loops that let a model take actions — built from scratch, then broken on purpose to see where they fail.

The Agent Loop: Forty Lines and Four Ways It Breaks

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Strip away the frameworks and a minimal tool-using agent is a loop that lets a language model request actions. Build that loop from scratch, then break it deliberately — because many of the recurring engineering problems become visible as failure modes of these forty lines.

Jul 20, 2026

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