Book lab 11

Agent Architectures: Hype vs Reality

Safe agent loops and control boundaries

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Chapter assignment

Design a safe agent loop with hard limits, allow-list, logging, and fallback. Compare it with a simple prompt chain for the same task.

What to do now

  1. Define allowed actions.
  2. Set a stop condition.
  3. Log one decision that must be reviewable.

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