1.1 The agentic loop

Part of the Claude from Zero to Mastery (Claude Certified Architect prep) course

Before this: Lesson 0.5 and Lesson 0.6. There you saw the idea of the loop. Here we open it up step by step. No programming needed.

The agentic loop is the cycle that calls the model, runs the tools it asked for, and calls it again until the job is done. These few small steps are the engine of every agent, whether you build it yourself or Claude Code runs it for you. Domain 1 questions keep coming back to it. ...