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Agentic AI Foundations & Architectures

Agent Runtime

Also known as: agent harness

The agent runtime is the infrastructure layer that hosts and drives the agent loop. It manages prompt assembly, tool dispatch, state persistence, retry logic, and stopping conditions. The runtime sits between the raw language model API and the rest of the system, translating model outputs into real function calls and feeding observations back into the next prompt turn.

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