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Agents
How a model asks for tools, loops on the result, and when a person still decides.
Five cards on this track are live. Concept cards are free, including the ones that are not written yet. Names without a card are not links. Practice for this track is the Agents pack, and that pack is coming soon.
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Agent loop
Live
Free card
A cycle of model step, tool result, and another model step, until a stop.
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Tool calling
Live
Free card
The model asks your code to run a named function, then reads the result.
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Tool design/MCP
Live
Free card
How a tool is named, described, and exposed, including over MCP.
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Context engineering
Live
Free card
Deciding what goes into the window for this step, and what stays out.
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Memory
Coming soon
Free card
State kept across turns or sessions so the loop does not start from zero.
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Planning
Coming soon
Free card
Breaking a job into steps before or during the loop.
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Prompt injection
Live
Free card
Untrusted text that tries to override the instruction or the tool rules.
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Permissions & human-in-the-loop
Coming soon
Free card
What the agent may do alone, and what waits for a person.
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Guardrails
Coming soon
Free card
Checks that block or reshape an action or a reply before it lands.
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Failure modes
Coming soon
Free card
How an agent loop stalls, loops, or acts on a bad tool result.
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Agent evaluation
Coming soon
Free card
Scoring an agent on tasks, including whether it used tools well.
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Multi-agent
Coming soon
Free card
More than one agent, with a handoff or a shared task.