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Planning
Also: agent planning
The process by which an agent determines the sequence of steps needed to achieve a goal — ranging from simple linear plans to dynamic replanning based on observations.
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In practice
You give Claude an agent task: "set up a demo environment for this new client." Before taking any actions, Claude breaks it into steps — what to do first, what depends on what, what could go wrong — and presents the plan. Planning is the reasoning phase that happens before execution, and it's what separates agents that work reliably from ones that barrel forward and make mistakes.
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