Plans Before Action: What XAgent Can Learn from Pre-Act's Cognitive Blueprint
If ReAct was a spark, Pre-Act is a blueprint. In the paper Pre-Act: Multi-Step Planning and Reasoning Improves Acting in LLM Agents, Mrinal Rawat et al. challenge the single-step cognitive paradigm of ReAct, offering instead a roadmap for how agents should plan, reason, and act—especially when tool use and workflow coherence matter. What Is ReAct? A Quick Primer The ReAct framework—short for Reasoning and Acting—is a prompting strategy that allows an LLM to alternate between thinking and doing in a loop. Each iteration follows this pattern: ...