Same Call, Same Result: A No-Progress Detector for Agent Tool Loops
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An agent sat on step 7 for forty minutes. It was not hung. It was repeating. Every turn it re-ran the same search. Every turn the tool returned the same twelve lines. Then it re-planned the same fix. The trace above is illustrative. Step counts and timings are placeholders, not measurements. A diff…
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- 2026-10-19 08:19 · DEV Community — AI
Same Call, Same Result: A No-Progress Detector for Agent Tool Loops