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Home/Glossary/ReAct
AI Glossary Term

What does “ReAct” mean?

Definition

A prompting pattern that interleaves reasoning steps with tool-use actions to solve tasks more reliably.

Related terms

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.
Algorithm
A defined set of rules or steps that a computer follows to solve a problem or complete a task.
Chain-of-Thought
A reasoning style where an AI model decomposes a problem into intermediate steps.
Tool Use
A model's ability to call external tools such as search, calculators, or APIs.
Reinforcement Learning
Training by reward signals where an agent learns actions that maximize long-term return.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.

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ReAct Agent Pattern

See also

Agentic LoopTree of ThoughtsMCP (Model Context Protocol)DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)KV CacheQLoRASpeculative DecodingFlash Attention
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