How do you prevent agents from looping infinitely?

Set a hard cap on iterations (e.g., max 10 loops) and track tool execution timeouts in your application code.

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An LLM-based system that can plan its own execution steps, call external tools, and adapt its behavior to achieve a goal.

Reasoning and Acting—a paradigm where the model alternates between writing thoughts and executing actions to solve problems.

Any API, database query, web search engine, calculator, or file reader that you expose to the LLM via code wrappers.

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