What is the agentic loop?

The agentic loop covers everything that happens inside your agent as it works, and how SonarQube helps guide and verify that work.

All the work happening inside an agent is what we describe as "the agentic loop".

Once you submit a prompt, your agent explores the codebase, plans its work, and implements that plan. You then either ask it to refine or correct the result, which starts the loop again, or you push the code and open a pull request.

Two things help your agent throughout that loop:

• Guide: deliver information beyond the prompt so your agent works efficiently and generates code that follows your standards
• Verify: scan the generated code as early as possible, so problems reach the agent while it can still fix them

This is what Sonar Vortex is designed to help with.