Agent Loop EngineeringHow to A/B Test Agent Loop StrategiesNot sure whether your new loop strategy is actually better or just feels better? Agent loop A/B testing gives you a real answer instead of a hunch. Here's how to run one that holds up.August 25, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringLoop Timeouts and Wall-Clock LimitsPicture a user waiting 90 seconds while your agent grinds through step 20. A well-designed agent loop timeout ends the wait gracefully instead of letting runs drag forever. Here's how to build one.August 25, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringRecovering the Loop After a Bad Tool ResultRoughly a third of agent failures trace to one bad tool result the loop couldn't recover from. Agent loop recovery is the difference between a hiccup and a crashed run. Here's the teardown.August 25, 2026·9 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringHandling Ambiguous Goals in the Agent LoopAn agent asked to 'clean up the database' deleted three months of records. Agent ambiguous goal handling is the guardrail that would have stopped it. Here's the failure and the fix.August 24, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringSubgoal Decomposition Inside the LoopMost agent advice says decompose everything into subgoals. That's wrong for half of tasks. Agent subgoal decomposition helps when structure exists and hurts when you force it. Here's the line.August 24, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringMulti-Step Planning vs Reactive LoopsShould your agent plan the whole task upfront or figure it out step by step? A multi-step planning agent and a reactive loop fail in opposite ways. This guide helps you choose and combine them.August 24, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringHow to Add a Verification Step Before the Final AnswerPicture your agent confidently returning a wrong number to a customer. An agent verification step catches these before they ship. Here's a teardown of a weak final-answer flow and its fix.August 24, 2026·9 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringConfidence Scoring to Decide When to StopAgents that stop on a fixed step count are wrong twice: they quit too early on hard tasks and grind pointlessly on easy ones. Agent confidence scoring fixes both. Here's a real rollout.August 24, 2026·9 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringDynamic Tool Selection Within the LoopAn agent handed 40 tools picked the wrong one 30% of the time. A dynamic tool selection agent narrows the toolset each step so the model chooses well. Here's how to build one.August 24, 2026·9 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringAdding Backtracking to the Agent LoopMost agent guides are wrong about failure: they retry the last step when the real problem was three steps back. Agent backtracking lets your loop undo a bad decision instead of digging deeper.August 24, 2026·8 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringWhy Your Agent Repeats the Same ActionEver watched your agent call the same tool over and over? The agent repeating actions fix is almost never a bigger model — it's memory and feedback. Here's the teardown.August 24, 2026·9 min read
Agent Loop EngineeringDebugging an Agent That Loops ForeverWhen an agent gets stuck in a loop, it burns budget and never returns an answer. This case study walks through diagnosing and fixing a real infinite-loop agent step by step.August 24, 2026·9 min read
