Planning loops are the heartbeat of autonomous agents. At each step the agent thinks, acts, and observes — then repeats until the goal is reached. Designing safe termination conditions, managing infinite loops, detecting when a plan is failing, and deciding when to replant vs. persist are the hard engineering problems in this space.
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