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Agent Loops

majiayu000/agent-loops

Agentic workflow patterns for autonomous LLM reasoning. Use when building ReAct agents, implementing reasoning loops, or creating LLMs that plan and execute multi-step tasks.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill agent-loops

What comes with it

351 bytes besides the instruction
metadata.json

The instruction itself

13 sections, as written by the author

Agent Loops

Enable LLMs to reason, plan, and take autonomous actions.

When to Use

  • Multi-step problem solving
  • Tasks requiring planning
  • Autonomous tool use
  • Self-correcting workflows

ReAct Pattern (Reasoning + Acting)

REACT_PROMPT = """You are an agent that reasons step by step.

For each step, respond with:
Thought: [your reasoning about what to do next]
Action: [tool_name(arg1, arg2)]
Observation: [you'll see the result here]

When you have the final answer:
Thought: I now have enough information
Final Answer: [your response]

Available tools: {tools}

Question: {question}
"""

async def react_loop(question: str, tools: dict, max_steps: int = 10) -> str:
    """Execute ReAct reasoning loop."""
    history = REACT_PROMPT.format(tools=list(tools.keys()), question=question)

    for step in range(max_steps):
        response = await llm.chat([{"role": "user", "content": history}])
        history += response.content

        # Check for final answer
        if "Final Answer:" in response.content:
            return response.content.split("Final Answer:")[-1].strip()

        # Extract and execute action
        if "Action:" in response.content:
            action = parse_action(response.content)
            result = await tools[action.name](*action.args)
            history += f"\nObservation: {result}\n"

    return "Max steps reached without answer"

Plan-and-Execute Pattern

async def plan_and_execute(goal: str) -> str:
    """Create plan first, then execute steps."""
    # 1. Generate plan
    plan = await llm.chat([{
        "role": "user",
        "content": f"Create a step-by-step plan to: {goal}\n\nFormat as numbered list."
    }])

    steps = parse_plan(plan.content)
    results = []

    # 2. Execute each step
    for i, step in enumerate(steps):
        result = await execute_step(step, context=results)
        results.append({"step": step, "result": result})

        # 3. Check if replanning needed
        if should_replan(results):
            return await plan_and_execute(
                f"{goal}\n\nProgress so far: {results}"
            )

    # 4. Synthesize final answer
    return await synthesize(goal, results)

Self-Correction Loop

async def self_correcting_agent(task: str, max_retries: int = 3) -> str:
    """Agent that validates and corrects its own output."""
    for attempt in range(max_retries):
        # Generate response
        response = await llm.chat([{
            "role": "user",
            "content": task
        }])

        # Self-validate
        validation = await llm.chat([{
            "role": "user",
            "content": f"""Validate this response for the task: {task}

Response: {response.content}

Check for:
1. Correctness - Is it factually accurate?
2. Completeness - Does it fully answer the task?
3. Format - Is it properly formatted?

If valid, respond: VALID
If invalid, respond: INVALID: [what's wrong and how to fix]"""
        }])

        if "VALID" in validation.content:
            return response.content

        # Correct based on feedback
        task = f"{task}\n\nPrevious attempt had issues: {validation.content}"

    return response.content  # Return best attempt

Memory Management

class AgentMemory:
    """Sliding window memory for agents."""

    def __init__(self, max_messages: int = 20):
        self.messages = []
        self.max_messages = max_messages
        self.summary = ""

    def add(self, role: str, content: str):
        self.messages.append({"role": role, "content": content})

        # Summarize old messages when window full
        if len(self.messages) > self.max_messages:
            self._compress()

    def _compress(self):
        """Summarize oldest messages."""
        old = self.messages[:10]
        self.messages = self.messages[10:]

        # Async summarize would be better
        summary = summarize(old)
        self.summary = f"{self.summary}\n{summary}"

    def get_context(self) -> list:
        """Get messages with summary prefix."""
        context = []
        if self.summary:
            context.append({
                "role": "system",
                "content": f"Previous context summary: {self.summary}"
            })
        return context + self.messages

Key Decisions

| Decision | Recommendation |

|----------|----------------|

| Max steps | 5-15 (prevent infinite loops) |

| Temperature | 0.3-0.7 (balance creativity/focus) |

| Memory window | 10-20 messages |

| Validation | Every 3-5 steps |

Common Mistakes

  • No step limit (infinite loops)
  • No memory management (context overflow)
  • No error recovery (crashes on tool failure)
  • Over-complex prompts (agent gets confused)
  • function-calling - Tool definitions and execution
  • multi-agent-orchestration - Coordinating multiple agents
  • langgraph-workflows - Stateful agent graphs

Capability Details

react-loop

Keywords: react, reason, act, observe, loop

Solves:

  • Implement ReAct pattern
  • Create reasoning loops
  • Build iterative agents

tool-use

Keywords: tool, function, call, execution

Solves:

  • Implement tool calling
  • Execute functions from LLM
  • Parse tool responses

workflow-template

Keywords: template, workflow, agent, typescript

Solves:

  • Agent workflow template
  • TypeScript implementation
  • Copy-paste starter

How to use it

Copy the folder

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