Planning

Planning constructs structured paths that can move an agent from its current state toward an active goal.

A plan can contain future actions, intermediate states, dependencies, constraints and contingencies.

Goal management determines which outcome deserves pursuit.

Planning determines how that active goal might be achieved.

A plan describes intended future structure, while an action is a concrete operation selected for execution now.

Decision making can choose among eligible actions while remaining guided by the larger plan.

Replanning changes the intended path when new evidence, failed actions or environmental changes invalidate the current plan.

The underlying goal can remain active while the strategy used to achieve it changes.

Execution produces evidence about whether the assumptions and expected effects encoded by a plan remain correct.

Monitoring this evidence allows the agent to repair or replace plans rather than following them blindly.

Persistent agents can maintain plan structure and progress across model calls, interruptions and process restarts.

This lets long-running work continue without reconstructing the entire strategy from conversation history.

Planning failures can occur even when the active goal itself is correct.