Step Caps, Timeouts and Retries for LLM Tool Loops in Node.js
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To make an LLM tool loop safe for production in Node.js, you need five things. Cap the number of steps. Give every tool its own timeout. Retry only the failures that are worth retrying, with backoff. Make every tool that changes something idempotent. Log each step as one structured line. Without th…
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Step Caps, Timeouts and Retries for LLM Tool Loops in Node.js