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AI that doesn't just answer but takes steps: searching, using tools, and checking its own work toward a goal.

In one line
AI that doesn't just answer but takes steps: searching, using tools, and checking its own work toward a goal.
Picture it
Going from a helpful librarian to an assistant who actually runs the errands.
Under the hood
A model in a loop that your code runs: it receives the context, either answers or proposes a tool call, your code validates and runs permitted calls and returns the results, and the loop continues until the goal is verified or a limit, denial, cancellation or handoff ends it. The model's stop reason says why one response ended, not whether the task succeeded.
Leads to
On a guided path
Path 4: What makes it an agent, stop 2 of 9.
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