My LangChain agent entered a loop at 2am. By morning: $400 gone. The problem isn't the loop. The...
My LangChain agent entered a loop at 2am. By morning: $400 gone.
The problem isn't the loop. The problem is nothing stopped it.
Logging doesn't stop it. Alerts don't stop it. They tell you after.
What you need is a gate that fires before the LLM call — not after.
I built Valta for exactly this. Here's how it works in 5 lines:
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