An agent loop that works on a quiet day can fail when a trigger fires twice or a goal never arrives. Three structural checks keep it safe to run alone.
An agent loop is anything that keeps going without a person pressing the button: a timer that wakes a model, an agent that tries again until the task is complete, a batch that walks down a list. In testing such a loop looks fine, because testing happens when everything cooperates. Trouble comes when the scheduler hands over the same tick twice, a remote service turns down every call, or the event the loop waits for never occurs. This guide covers three structural properties that decide whether a loop can be left alone: whether a repeated step does harm, whether the loop has a hard ceiling, and who decides the work is complete. A section near the end is a set of experiments that are able to…
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