Source record

Published by philschmid.de (Phil Schmid) (T1.5 source). The original is at https://www.philschmid.de/inner-loop-vs-outer-loop.

Pipeline notes

The summary and note below are generated by the signal pipeline — they are Beyond Desk’s reading, not quotations from the source.

Phil Schmid distinguishes the inner loop—an agent verifying its own work within a single task via a hardcoded tool cycle—from the outer loop—an agent carrying lessons across tasks through persistent memory, skills, and rules files—arguing both are needed for agents that are reliable and improve over time.

A clean mental model separating within-task verification from cross-task learning, useful for anyone designing or evaluating agent systems.

Cited by

No citations on record.