T5-R6 in five minutes
Do not use a loop for a form with known fields.
Do not use a loop where a mistake is hard to undo and nobody is watching.
Do not use a loop to avoid writing the policy down.
A fixed script plus one model call can be the whole design.
The engineering note on agents says to start with the simplest thing that works. Confirm the page.
Looking up a library card by id is a function. Summarizing the card in one sentence can be one model call. Neither needs an open loop.
Sources and go deeper
- Anthropic, Building effective agents vendor last checked 2026-10
- Large language model — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10