Agents Are Just Loops: Generate, Verify, Repair

An agent is tool calling plus a termination condition. Everything else is marketing. This course builds the loop that matters: generate, verify, repair, re-verify, terminating on a deterministic verifier rather than on the model’s own confidence.

You will run it against the rule pack from the verifiers course, feed violations back as located defects, prefer minimal diffs over regeneration, detect oscillation, and produce a twenty-case regression suite with convergence rate and a cost curve. Then you will run the whole thing again on a different model.

Six lessons, about two and a half hours, a graded quiz on each. Free and open to access.

What you will learn

• Deflate the word agent into tool calling plus a termination condition
• Build a generate, verify, repair loop against a deterministic pack
• Terminate on the verifier, cap iterations and detect oscillation
• Write repair prompts that feed back located violations and prefer minimal diffs
• Produce convergence rate, cost per converged artifact and a regression suite

Course curriculum

6 lessons, 2.5 hours, a graded quiz on each.

1. Deflating the Word: An Agent Is Tool Calling Plus a Termination Condition
2. The Loop: Generate, Verify, Repair, Re-verify Artifact: Working loop
3. Termination: On the Verifier, Never on Confidence
4. Repair Prompting: Located Violations and Minimal Diffs Artifact: Repair strategy comparison
5. Observability: Violation Logs, Iteration Counts and Cost per Artifact Artifact: Run log
6. The Regression Suite: Twenty Cases, Convergence and Cost Artifact: Convergence and cost curves

Gate

Twenty of twenty cases converged, run log produced, cost curve plotted.