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What Is an AI Agent, Actually?

LangChain · Jul 17, 2026 · Engineering Insights

LangChain defines an AI agent as an LLM looping through decide, act, reason, repeat.

“That loop, decide, act, reason, repeat. That's what makes an agent.”

LangChain offers a basic definitional explainer on AI agents: an LLM with tool-calling ability that iterates through a decide-act-reason loop until a task is complete. This is foundational educational content with no new announcement or finding. Low newsletter value as it covers concepts already well-understood across the AI engineering community.

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