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Explore-then-Act

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A deployment trick where an AI agent gets free time to wander before being given the actual task.

A two-phase agent deployment pattern in which the agent first performs unconstrained environment exploration, summarizes findings into a natural-language note, and then receives the task with that note injected into the prompt.

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