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Equation 6 · Part 1 · Reliable AI Agents Are Control Systems, Not Chatbots

Symbol g

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What this part means

the task objective.

Its job in the formula

g is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Where the article explains it

where hth_t is retained working state and g is the task objective.

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where hth_t is retained working state and g is the task objective. A tool translates the proposed action into an environmental transition; the environment returns evidence; and an evaluator determines whether the evidence supports continuing, replanning, escalating, or stopping. The policy may be a frontier model, but the agent is the entire closed loop.

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