Agent Template · self-correcting loop · agents calling agents · bounded iterations

Editorial loop: A Self-Correcting Agent

A self-correcting agent: a bounded LOOP re-runs a writer-critic child agent — draft, harsh self-critique, rewrite — until the child approves its own draft or three rounds are up. The loop is durable (it survives restarts mid-revision) and every round is visible in the run waterfall.

How It Works

A bounded loop re-runs a writer-critic child agent — draft, harsh self-critique, rewrite — until the child approves its own draft or three rounds are up. Every round is its own child run in the trace.

The loop is durable, so it survives a restart mid-revision. The parent pins the child by version: editing the child publishes a new version, and the parent keeps the pinned one until you re-pin.

Try It

In TheYgent, open Settings → Samples.
Fill the model slots below with models from your registry, then click Install on Editorial loop.
Open the installed agent and run it with the example input.

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The Graph

Every node in the agent and where its output goes, read from the template itself.

sample-editorial-loop

Node	Type	Sends its output to
Topic	`input`	Revise until approved
Revise until approved	`loop`	Extract the final draft
Extract the final draft	`transform`	Final blurb
Final blurb	`output`	—

Child agent: sample-editorial-writer

Node	Type	Sends its output to
Topic or prior round	`input`	Write + critique
Write + critique	`llm`	Round result
Round result	`output`	—

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