Loop or workflow
List three steps: look up a note, draft a reply, stop.
If the order never changes, label it a workflow.
If the model may skip or repeat a tool, label it a loop and add a cap.
Sources and go deeper
- Anthropic, Building effective agents vendor last checked 2026-10
- Yao and co-authors, ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models, 2022 paper last checked 2026-10
- Large language model — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10