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Ralph loop

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Definition

A dead-simple way of running an AI: just let it try, show it the error, and let it try again until it works.

A minimal agent harness pattern — named after a Geoffrey Huntley blog post — that repeatedly feeds compiler or tool errors back to an LLM until output passes; the basic-agent baseline in the DeepMind Erdős work.

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