What is a turn?
A turn is one message from you plus everything the agent does before it hands back.
~/ai-glossary
$ glossary
6 of 11 in #how-it-works
In a turn it might read 6 files, run a command and write 2 more. All of that is one turn.
It matters because a turn is where the work happens, and a long one can go wrong quietly in the middle.
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