Debugging a Looping or Failing AI Agent
A step-by-step method for finding out why an agent repeats itself, picks the wrong tool, gives up or makes things up, using logs and small experiments.
When an agent misbehaves, the temptation is to rewrite the prompt and hope. Resist it. Agents are programs with a model in the middle, and they can be debugged like programs: reproduce, inspect, change one thing, retest. This guide gives you a routine and a catalog of common causes.
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