Definition

ReAct

ReAct, short for Reasoning plus Acting, is the loop most production agents run: the model thinks about what it needs, takes an action such as a tool call, observes the result, and repeats until it can answer. Rather than answering in one shot, it gathers information step by step. The book describes it as the fundamental loop behind every agent that does anything useful.

ReAct diagram from Intelligence at Scale
Diagram from chapter 8, Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering

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Chapter 8: Prompt Engineering and Context Engineering

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