{"slug":"selvarajmurugesan90-agent-tool-call-loop-diagnosis-and-circuit-breaking","name":"agent-tool-call-loop-diagnosis-and-circuit-breaking","description":"Guides diagnosing an active or recurring runaway agent tool-call loop and stopping it safely with a bounded retry policy and a hard ceiling — distinct from raising the iteration limit. Use when a user asks to \"figure out why the agent is stuck calling the same tool,\" \"safely kill a runaway agent session,\" \"the agent keeps retrying the same failing action,\" \"someone just raised the retry limit and it's still looping,\" or needs to design a circuit breaker so a stalled agent fails closed instead of burning cost/quota indefinitely.","long_description":"---\nname: agent-tool-call-loop-diagnosis-and-circuit-breaking\ndescription: >\n  Guides diagnosing an active or recurring runaway agent tool-call loop and\n  stopping it safely with a bounded retry policy and a hard ceiling —\n  distinct from raising the iteration limit. Use when a user asks to\n  \"figure out why the agent is stuck calling the same tool,\" \"safely kill\n  a runaway agent session,\" \"the agent keeps retrying the same failing\n  action,\" \"someone just raised the retry limit and it's still looping,\"\n  or needs to design a circuit breaker so a stalled agent fails closed\n  instead of burning cost/quota indefinitely.\nlicense: Apache-2.0\ncompatibility: \"Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI\"\nmetadata:\n  domain: ai-agent\n  maturity: stable\n---\n\n# Agent Tool Call Loop Diagnosis and Circuit Breaking\n\n## Purpose\n\nA runaway tool-call loop — an agent calling the same tool repeatedly, or\noscillating between two or three calls, without making progress — is one of\nthe most common and most expensive agent failure modes in production: it\nburns tokens and API quota, can hammer a downstream system, and often goes\nunnoticed until a bill or a rate-limit alert fires. Preventing loops at\ndesign time (a hard iteration cap, stall detection in the dispatcher) is\ncovered in [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md)\nand [agent-tool-use-patterns](../agent-tool-use-patterns/SKILL.md); this\nskill is the *operational* companion — what to do when a loop is actually\nhappening or has already happened: how to confirm it's really a loop and\nnot a legitimate long-running task, how to stop an in-flight session\nsafely, how to root-cause the trigger, and how to design a **bounded retry\nwith a hard ceiling** rather than the reflexive, unsafe fix of just raising\nthe existing limit. Raising a limit without addressing the cause doesn't\nstop the loop — it makes the loop more expensive before it stops.\n\n## When to use\n\n- A cost or latency alert traces back to one agent session or one workflow\n  making an unusually high number of tool calls (see\n  [agent-cost-and-latency-spike-investigation](../agent-cost-and-latency-spike-investigation/SKILL.md)\n  for the broader spike-triage process this often feeds into).\n- An agent session is actively stuck and needs to be stopped safely without\n  corrupting in-flight state.\n- The transcript shows the same (or near-identical) tool call repeated\n  many times with no new information between calls.\n- Someone proposes \"just raise `MAX_ITERATIONS`\" or \"just increase the\n  retry count\" as the fix, and you need to evaluate whether that's masking\n  the real problem.\n- Designing or auditing a circuit-breaker/retry policy for a tool-calling\n  agent before it's given broader autonomy or higher-volume traffic.\n\n## Prerequisites & environment\n\n- Per-session logs of every tool call (name, arguments, result, timestamp)\n  so a loop can be identified from history, not just suspected from a\n  vague \"this looks slow\" report.\n- A way to cancel or interrupt an in-flight agent session (a kill switch at\n  the orchestration layer, not just \"stop sending it new input\") — see\n  step 3 for why cancellation timing matters.\n- The tool risk classification already established in\n  [agent-tool-use-patterns](../agent-tool-use-patterns/SKILL.md)\n  (read-only / reversible / irreversible), since safe cancellation and\n  circuit-breaker design depend on knowing which in-flight call, if any,\n  has a side effect that can't simply be abandoned mid-call.\n- Access to the dispatcher/loop code so a circuit breaker can actually be\n  implemented, not just recommended.\n\n## Step-by-step guidance\n\n1. **Confirm it's actually a loop before treating it as one.** Pull the\n   session's tool-call history and check for genuine repetition, not just\n   \"many calls\" — a legitimately long task (paginating through a large\n   result set, retrying a transient network blip a bounded number of\n   times) can also produce a high call count. The distinguishing signal is\n   whether each call carries *new information* toward the goal:\n\n   ```python\n   def is_loop(call_history, window=5):\n       recent = call_history[-window:]\n       signatures = [(c.tool_name, json.dumps(c.arguments, sort_keys=True)) for c in recent]\n       return len(recent) == window and len(set(signatures)) <= 2  # near-total repetition\n   ```\n\n2. **Classify the loop type** — the fix differs by type:\n   - **Exact-repeat stall**: identical (tool, arguments) called repeatedly\n     with no change — almost never intentional progress.\n   - **Oscillation**: alternating between two or three calls (e.g.\n     `search(x)` → `search(y)` → `search(x)` → ...) — usually the model\n     re-trying variations without converging, often because neither result\n     satisfies an implicit precondition the prompt never stated.\n   - **Error-retry storm**: the same call fails (error/timeout) and the\n     agent retries it verbatim rather than adapting — this is a dispatcher\n     problem (the error wasn't surfaced usefully) as much as a model one.\n   - **Cost-without-progress**: calls are all distinct but the session's\n     state (as tracked by the agent's own plan/goal) never advances —\n     harder to detect mechanically; usually surfaces via a session\n     duration/cost outlier rather than a repeated-signature check.\n\n3. **Stop the in-flight session at a safe boundary, not mid-call.** Before\n   force-killing a session, check whether any tool currently executing (or\n   just completed but not yet acknowledged) is a reversible-write or\n   irreversible-write action per its risk classification — killing a\n   process mid-write can leave a partial state (a half-applied update, a\n   sent-but-unlogged message) that's harder to clean up than the loop\n   itself. Prefer a cooperative cancellation (set a flag the loop checks\n   between tool calls) over a hard process kill wherever the runtime\n   supports it; reserve a hard kill for cases where the loop is read-only\n   or already confirmed stalled with no side effects in flight.\n\n4. **Distinguish \"still worth retrying\" from \"already proven futile\" before\n   designing the breaker.** A transient error (network timeout, momentary\n   429) is reasonably retried a small, bounded number of times with\n   backoff. An error that is deterministic given the current arguments (a\n   404 on an ID that doesn't exist, a validation error on malformed input)\n   will not succeed on retry with the same arguments — retrying it anyway\n   is pure waste and the fix belongs in surfacing that distinction to the\n   model, not retrying harder.\n\n5. **Implement a bounded retry with an explicit hard ceiling, not just a\n   backoff schedule.** Backoff alone (exponential delay between attempts)\n   without a hard cap on total attempts still allows an unbounded total\n   cost if nothing ever forces a stop; a hard ceiling is the actual safety\n   property.\n\n   ```python\n   class CircuitBreaker:\n       def __init__(self, max_attempts_per_signature=3, max_total_calls=25,\n                    cooldown_seconds=30):\n           self.max_attempts_per_signature = max_attempts_per_signature\n           self.max_total_calls = max_total_calls          # hard ceiling, session-wide\n           self.cooldown_seconds = cooldown_seconds\n           self._attempts = collections.Counter()\n           self._total_calls = 0\n           self._tripped_signatures = set()\n\n       def before_call(self, tool_name, arguments):\n           signature = (tool_name, json.dumps(arguments, sort_keys=True))\n           if signature in self._tripped_signatures:\n               raise CircuitOpen(f\"{tool_name} already failed {self.max_attempts_per_signature}x with these arguments\")\n           if self._total_calls >= self.max_total_calls:\n               raise CircuitOpen(\"session tool-call ceiling reached — hard stop, not a retryable condition\")\n           self._total_calls += 1\n           return signature\n\n       def after_call(self, signature, result):\n           if result.is_error:\n               self._attempts[signature] += 1\n               if self._attempts[signature] >= self.max_attempts_per_signature:\n                   self._tripped_signatures.add(signature)  # this exact call is now permanently blocked this session\n   ```\n\n   The critical property: `max_total_calls` is a **hard ceiling** the\n   session cannot exceed under any circumstance, independent of and in\n   addition to per-signature retry limits — it's the backstop that catches\n   oscillation and cost-without-progress loops that per-signature counting\n   alone would miss.\n\n   > **Warning:** Raising `max_attempts_per_signature` or\n   > `max_total_calls` in response to a loop incident, without fixing the\n   > underlying trigger (step 6) and without keeping *some* hard ceiling\n   > in place, is not a fix — it is choosing to pay more before the same\n   > failure stops. Every ceiling raise should come with a stated reason\n   > tied to a legitimate use case (e.g. \"this workflow genuinely needs up\n   > to 40 calls for large result sets\"), not \"the loop kept hitting the\n   > old limit.\"\n\n6. **Root-cause the underlying trigger** once the loop is contained. Common\n   triggers: a tool schema that doesn't tell the model a precondition\n   (e.g. \"call `stop_instance` before `resize_instance`\"), a tool that\n   returns an ambiguous or malformed error the model can't act on, or the\n   model misreading a tool result as incomplete when it was actually\n   final. This overlaps with\n   [agent-bad-response-triage-and-root-cause-classification](../agent-bad-response-triage-and-root-cause-classification/SKILL.md)\n   when the loop also produced a bad final answer rather than just wasted\n   cost.\n\n7. **Add the trapped case to the eval suite** (see\n   [agent-evaluation-and-guardrails](../agent-evaluation-and-guardrails/SKILL.md))\n   so a fix to the tool schema, error message, or prompt can be validated\n   against the exact scenario that caused the loop, not just spot-checked.\n\n8. **Add session-level alerting on tool-call count and distinct-signature\n   ratio**, not just on total cost or latency — a loop is visible in call\n   count and repetition well before it shows up as a cost anomaly large\n   enough to alert on its own (see\n   [agent-cost-and-latency-spike-investigation](../agent-cost-and-latency-spike-investigation/SKILL.md)).\n\n9. **Verify the fix by replaying the original trigger** against the\n   patched tool/prompt with the circuit breaker still active — the breaker\n   should not trip on the fixed path, and should still trip if the same\n   bug is reintroduced later.\n\n## Best practices\n\n- Treat the circuit breaker's hard ceiling as safety-critical\n  configuration, reviewed with the same scrutiny as the agent's main loop\n  iteration cap in\n  [agent-architecture-design](../agent-architecture-design/SKILL.md) — the\n  two caps overlap in purpose but operate at different layers (overall\n  loop vs. per-tool-signature).\n- Set a `max_total_calls` ceiling generously above legitimate peak usage,\n  but always set one.\n- Log every circuit-breaker trip with full context (signatures attempted,\n  arguments, errors received) — a trip is a debugging gift, not just a\n  safety event to acknowledge and dismiss.\n- Prefer fixing the tool/schema/prompt trigger over tuning breaker\n  thresholds; a well-tuned breaker limits damage, it doesn't prevent the\n  next loop from a different trigger.\n- Make the breaker's \"circuit open\" state produce a clear, structured\n  failure the agent's final-answer logic can report as `failed`, not a\n  silent truncation that looks like a normal stop.\n- Keep the breaker's per-signature and session-wide ceilings both active\n  at once — session-wide alone misses cheap, low-cost oscillation loops\n  that never trip a cost alert; per-signature alone misses oscillation\n  across 3+ varying calls.\n- Periodically review which ceilings have been raised and why; a ceiling\n  raised during an incident and never revisited is effectively a silently\n  weakened safety c","tagline":"Guides diagnosing an active or recurring runaway agent tool-call loop and stopping it safely with a bounded retry policy and a hard ceiling — distinct from raising the iteration limit. 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