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Loops, critics & adversaries terms

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• Adversarial agent Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An agent assigned to oppose, challenge, or attack a target within a defined setting.

• Adversarial loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An informal pattern of challenge, revision, and rechecking; not one standardized algorithm.

• Agent loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Repeatedly assemble context, request an action, execute tools, observe results, and continue or stop.

• Critic Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A component that assesses a candidate and identifies weaknesses or potential improvements.

• Repair loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Modify a candidate or strategy in response to diagnosed failure, then try again.

• Replanning Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Revise the execution plan after new information, failures, or changed constraints.

• Stop condition Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An explicit rule for completion, failure, budget exhaustion, cancellation, or escalation.

• Verifier Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A component that checks claims or properties against evidence and specified conditions.

• Actor-critic pattern Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A producer and assessor arrangement; distinguish this loose agent pattern from actor-critic reinforcement learning.

• Adversarial Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Designed to challenge, exploit, or oppose a target system or candidate outcome.

• Adversary Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An actor or process whose objective conflicts with the target system's objective.

• Ambient agent Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An informal label for an agent that monitors relevant events rather than requiring a prompt for every action.

• Backpressure Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Feedback or limits that slow or reject progress; in coding-agent discussion, often tests, types, and lint failures.

• Blind review Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Assess an artifact without revealing irrelevant producer identity or prior assessments that could bias judgment.

• Counterexample Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A concrete case that disproves a general claim or violates a proposed invariant.

• Event-driven agent Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An agent that starts or resumes in response to an external event.

• Generator-evaluator loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Generate a candidate, assess it against criteria, and feed findings into another attempt.

• Goal-directed execution Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Select and revise actions by reference to an objective rather than a fixed response template.

• Heartbeat Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A periodic trigger that allows a system to inspect state and decide whether work is needed.

• Hill-climbing loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Propose a change, evaluate it, and retain it when it improves the chosen objective.

• Loop engineering Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Design the execution, verification, triggering, and improvement loops surrounding an agent.

• Persistent task execution Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Continue a task across interruptions using stored progress and an explicit completion contract.

• Plan-and-execute Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Construct an explicit plan, then execute its steps and track progress.

• Ralph loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An informal coding-agent pattern of repeated invocations with progress carried through persistent repository artifacts.

• ReAct Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A prompting pattern interleaving reasoning, actions, and observations.

• Reflection Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A model evaluates its own previous output or behavior to inform what to do next.

• Reflexion Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  A research method using verbal feedback and episodic memory to improve subsequent attempts.

• Retry loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Repeat an operation after failure, often without changing the underlying candidate or strategy.

• Self-improving agent Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An ambiguous label: improvement may change prompts, memory, skills, or weights; specify which.

• Self-refinement Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Repeatedly revise an output using feedback generated internally or externally.

• Stagnation detection Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Identify repeated work or errors without meaningful progress.

• Verification loop Pattern · Loops, critics & adversaries

  Repeat implementation and checks until acceptance or an execution limit is reached.

• Watchdog Concept · Loops, critics & adversaries

  An independent monitor that detects and interrupts stalled or unsafe execution.

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