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  "title": "Loop Engineering Treats the Agent as a Process, Not a Prompt",
  "description": "The useful unit of agent design becomes a repeated cycle with state, tools, checks, and stopping conditions rather than a single carefully worded instruction.",
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    "agents",
    "verification"
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