scratchpad
/ˈskrætʃpæd/
a working space where an agent drafts intermediate reasoning before it answers
scratchpad in a sentence
“The scratchpad showed the agent checking its units before replying.”
Origin of scratchpad
Middle English scracchen to scratch + pad writing tablet
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