Claude Code: how agent loops verify, not hallucinate
Anthropic's Claude Code team—Boris Cherny, Cat Wu, Addy Osmani—shared the pattern that makes agent loops reliable: verification gates, reusable routines, auto mode for long chains, and minimal context carriage.
• Verification between steps beats hoping the model got it right
• Routines (wrapped, replayable functions) cut hallucination surface area
• Auto mode chains reasoning without token bloat from repeated summaries
• Keep context tight—prune intermediate states, don't accumulate noise