Note: If your agent already uses the Responses API or Interactions API with built-in tool loops, the outcome loop wraps around that agentic loop as a quality gate. The agent finishes its work (tool calls, multi-turn reasoning, whatever it does), then the outcome loop scores the final output and decides whether to send it back for revision. It is a superset of the agentic loop, not a replacement for it.

Extracted from: building-outcome-loops/index.md