Your agent loops forever or never finishes the task. How do you bound and control agent execution?
An agent that retries the same failed action 40 times means a runaway bill and a stuck user. Termination is something you build into the harness, not something the model reliably decides. Here is the control layer.
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An agent that retries the same failed action 40 times means a runaway bill and a stuck user. Termination is something you build into the harness, not something the model reliably decides. Here is the control layer.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
