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Architectural patterns and guardrails for building reliable autonomous agents that start constrained and earn autonomy through proven reliability. \n \n Covers three core agent loop patterns: ReAct (alternating reasoning and action), Plan-Execute (separated planning and execution phases), and Reflection (self-evaluation and iterative improvement) \n Emphasizes guardrails-first approach with hard cost limits, step count reduction, and least-privilege API access to prevent runaway behavior \n Iden