INCIDENT RESPONSEAI SRE

Incident: Agent Infinite Loop

An agent loop repeatedly reasons or calls tools without making meaningful progress toward task completion.

WHY IT MATTERS

Loops create latency, cost and sometimes repeated side effects.

PRODUCTION EXAMPLE

A troubleshooting agent alternates between two tools for 40 iterations because neither result satisfies its stopping condition.

SRE DECISION

What hard limits stop the loop safely—steps, wall time, tool count or spend?

REMEMBEREvery autonomous workflow needs a bounded execution budget.
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