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  "title": "Agent Loops - New Runtime",
  "description": "A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about agent loops.",
  "answer": [
    "Agent Loops is tracked here as an evidence-linked topic, not as a static glossary entry.",
    "The page connects raw observations to pattern hypotheses, longer analysis, and public sources.",
    "Use it as the canonical landing page before drilling into individual records."
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  "last_updated": "2026-07-14",
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    "posts": 0,
    "atlas": 0,
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  },
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    "markdown": "https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-loops.md",
    "json": "https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-loops.json"
  },
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    "https://academy.langchain.com/courses/foundation-introduction-to-deepagents",
    "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/goal",
    "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w26",
    "https://cursor.com/changelog/06-18-26",
    "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-17-github-copilot-app-generally-available",
    "https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts",
    "https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/blob/main/skills/github-project-triage/SKILL.md",
    "https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/blob/main/skills/maintainer-orchestrator/SKILL.md",
    "https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2071988145667928442",
    "https://x.com/steipete/status/2064998499780084154",
    "https://youtube.com/watch?v=o6oYc9-X9Iw"
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      "title": "Goal-scoped loops replace manual continuation",
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        "automation"
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    }
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      "title": "Airbnb frames agentic coding as a loop inside development",
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      "kind": "Raw Signal",
      "slug": "deep-agents-package-long-running-harness",
      "title": "Deep Agents packages a harness for long-running tasks",
      "description": "LangChain's Deep Agents combines planning, files, memory, subagents, middleware, and backends for multi-step work.",
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      "title": "Claude Code can recover after a failed command",
      "description": "A runtime update lets the coding agent inspect a command failure and continue its loop without waiting for a generic human prompt.",
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        "coding-agents",
        "error-recovery",
        "agent-loops"
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      "title": "Loop Engineering Expands Beyond Coding",
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        "automation"
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      "description": "Reusable scripts turn issue triage, project maintenance, and review into recurring goal-driven jobs rather than one-off coding prompts.",
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        "agent-loops"
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