Atlas · GenAI 2026
Program-Aided LMs (PAL)
Offloading reasoning steps to executable code
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Prerequisites
PAL is a prompting technique.
- mediumCode Execution Agents
Reasoning steps are offloaded to executed code.
Recommended reference
Gao et al. (2022) PAL; Gulli (2025) Agentic Design Patterns — Ch.17