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How an AI Agent Architecture Actually Works, Step by Step

A working agent is a loop with a contract — observe, plan, act, reflect — plus explicit rules for what persists, what a tool call returns, and where a human has to say yes.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 6 min read

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AI Agents & Systems

Building an AI Agent Architecture in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide

An agent architecture is five engineering decisions wired into one harness — permission scoping, state persistence, checkpoint gates, retries, and instrumentation — each documented by a real SDK, each with a demonstrated production failure mode.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

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