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Thin SDK, Fat Runtime: Owning the Agent Loop in Pure Python

May 8, 2026·15 min·AI

A provider's SDK earns its keep on six concerns: auth, request shape, transport, retries, streaming reassembly, and response parsing. Everything above that, the agent loop, planning, routing, memory, parallelism, guardrails, and workflow state, is application architecture and is better written in pure Python.

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