PER: Shunyu Yao

PUMA Context

Overview

Author of ReAct (2022) — the foundational paper for PUMA’s Stage 4 agent architecture — and Tree of Thoughts (2023), relevant for Stage 3 backlog prioritisation.

Key Contribution

ReAct’s Thought-Action-Observation loop is the base pattern for all PUMA agent stages from Stage 4 onwards. The paper’s empirical demonstration that grounding LLM reasoning in external observations reduces hallucination is directly relevant to PUMA’s triage agent design.

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