Code Golf: An Agentic Loop in PHP
There has been a lot of discussion recently about agent frameworks - orchestration layers, SDKs, harnesses. Over lunch I found myself curious about how much of that is actually essential. How small could a working agentic loop be, whilst still doing useful work? The result is 821 bytes of PHP, running entirely locally via Ollama with a single shell tool - and it turns out that gets you surprisingly far.
