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agentic loop

The cycle an agent runs: pick a tool, call it, read the output, decide what is next. Everything an agent achieves is that loop repeated until it thinks it is finished.

ai 21 videos 46 mentions also: agent loop, agentic

Where it comes up

Cursor 201

May 19, 2026first said at 26:075 mentions

“the PR a second ago. Uh like I was mentioning, you I think we're all seeing like so much more code being generated now. Like if if you're a heavy user of of agentic coding platforms like Cursor, like there's probably a lot more PRs going in…”

Cursor for Enterprise

Apr 16, 2026first said at 8:215 mentions

“So, obviously across large enterprises, there are definitely scenarios in which you may want to I guess like control the certain outputs or or behave or like sort of intercept the agent loop in which how people users are interfacing with di…”

Securing Agentic Coding at Scale

Feb 17, 2026first said at 0:215 mentions

“>> Hey everybody, I'm Kevin over on the Cursor product team. really thinking about the ways in which uh agentic coding can work for large teams at scale uh working with some of the biggest enterprises in the world adopting AI coding. >> Swe…”

How Cursor uses Cursor

Apr 9, 2026first said at 0:554 mentions

“with the Cursor agents. If you haven't used Cursor previously, it's an agentic software engineering platform covering multiple different mediums available at cursor.com/download. We'd highly recommend if you haven't used it just go ahead an…”

Cursor for Financial Services

Feb 3, 2026first said at 0:283 mentions

“point for the session. Thank you. Uh nice to meet you all. I'm Hugo from the field engineering team here at Kurser. Really in charge of like scaling best practices across uh agentic systems and especially working with our financial services…”

Cursor for Mobile Developers

Apr 23, 2026first said at 1:083 mentions

“few years. And we uh we took an approach in building kind of a ground-up uh native application that is kind of first principled around the agentic experience and and coding with agents. So, when you're in VS Code here, uh you'll be able to…”

Cursor Admin Guide

Mar 31, 2026first said at 2:372 mentions

“These are ways in which you can actually augment and customize Cursor's agent loop to ensure that uh the way that the agent works is going to conform to different security uh regulations, things like scanning for secrets before a prompt is…”

Cursor for Professional Services

Nov 18, 2025first said at 0:212 mentions

“a POV around AI agentic engineering and also helping them around both internal work and client facing work. So really just wanted to preface this session by saying uh that cursor has some really good adoption in that industry. I wanted to k…”

Cursor for Support Teams

Nov 13, 2025first said at 26:012 mentions

“mean that other providers in the space are not. From our perspective, we're more focused on like systemic ways to manage secrets in a couple ways. I know I can talk about hooks here too. >> Yeah, for as Cody mentioned, for the more determin…”

Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era

Mar 26, 2026first said at 0:492 mentions

“Cool. And for today's topic, we're going to be talking about engineering in the agentic era. And so, you know, there's been kind of a lot of changes over the past year in terms of uh how everything works in terms of building product and sof…”

PRD to PR

Mar 18, 2026first said at 5:142 mentions

“this is kind of like the agents view. Um again, kind of like what I was saying, uh you know, you'll be able to see a lot of your archived agents. Really good for for orchestrating or doing a lot of uh agentic workflows. But if we switch to…”

Training Composer 2

May 14, 2026first said at 0:002 mentions

“kind of this again. Um, so, right. Hi, I'm Sasha. I'm a researcher here at Cursor. So, I'm going to talk today about Composer 2. Uh, this is our in-house coding model. Um, so, uh, Composer 2 is this model that we built for agentic coding. U…”

Cursor 101

May 7, 2026first said at 1:271 mention

“We're calling it Cursor 3. Sometimes we're calling it glass or the agent's window. This is uh slightly different than the traditional IDE that most of us are used to looking at when it comes to writing code um especially in an agentic setti…”

Cursor 101

Apr 7, 2026first said at 37:031 mention

“linters, the type type definitions? Um, these are all things that together will lead to a far more powerful, more consistent, and efficient agentic system that will work for you. And again, those cloud agents, you build out that infrastruct…”

Cursor 2.0 Launch

Nov 5, 2025first said at 13:421 mention

“models like sonnet or gp5 uh codecs work really well for this. Then when you want to actually go and build you can choose to build on your machine or you can build it in the cloud. And we're going to decide here to build locally on our mach…”

Cursor Agent SDK

May 12, 2026first said at 24:041 mention

“Uh I will do a quick check on uh skills. It should be um quite straightforward to do. And um the idea here is that again, it's going to give you access to the full agent loop, the full uh agent runtime, and so um you should be able to uh to…”

Cursor CLI

Apr 15, 2026first said at 12:551 mention

“app? I think that it you know for me it's largely a matter of preference. Um you know, sometimes I and I got my start with agentic coding you know in in the terminal. So, sometimes I like to to kind of have that interface. You can see I've…”

Cursor for Java Developers

Mar 12, 2026first said at 22:581 mention

“actually add screenshots. So let's go ahead and um uh provide some some feedback over here to the agent and saying that hey I don't see waterbot in my um in my start game. What's going on? So this is a this is a bug that we see and this is…”

Cursor for Quality Assurance

Feb 12, 2026first said at 39:481 mention

“All right. Uh I have one more topic I want to cover uh mainly about how to think about uh using plan mode to come up with testing plans. also thinking about things like TDD um that that are useful frames of doing agentic development. But be…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

May 21, 2026first said at 0:241 mention

“This session is being recorded. And so, we will share the link in a follow-up. My name's Chris. I'm going to be hosting today. I'm part of our field engineering team here at Cursor. So, I work with a lot of our customers for implementation,…”

Refactoring Legacy Codebases

Jan 8, 2026first said at 13:101 mention

“generation of models is not good enough to do that in one shot. There's just no way. It's way too much work. You have a limited context window. So for something like Opus or GPT, this is like 200,000 tokens. It's just not doable. One thing…”