Architecture Deep-Dive

Inside the Agent Loop: Tool Execution Architecture of Modern AI Runtimes

How Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw implement the agent execution loop — the state machine, tool dispatch model, error handling, and the design decisions that explain why agents behave the way they do.

Published May 20, 2026
18 min read
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