Your agent works in testing. Then you deploy it and things break in ways you didn't expect. Here are...
Your agent works in testing. Then you deploy it and things break in ways you didn't expect. Here are five failure modes I've seen repeatedly, with TypeScript code to prevent each one.
1. The Infinite Loop
What happens:
Your agent calls a tool, doesn't get the result it wants, so it tries again. And again. And again. Overnight, you've made 10,000 API calls.
Why it happens:
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