I Built an AI Agent That Does X — Here's What Actually Broke

Описание и применение

Созданный AI‑агент потерял память, застрял в бесконечном цикле при тайм‑ауте и вызывал несуществующие функции. Решения включали разделение контекста и памяти, ограничение повторов, проверку схем инструментов и переход к детерминированным скриптам.

Задача

The AI agent repeatedly forgot decisions, entered infinite loops on tool failures, called non‑existent methods, and was less autonomous than expected.

Результат

The agent became reliable, avoided infinite loops, correctly handled missing tools, and operated within clear autonomy boundaries.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Separate short‑term context from long‑term memory store.
• 2. Add hard retry limits and exponential backoff for tool calls.
• 3. Validate every tool call against a real schema before execution.
• 4. Replace unnecessary agent logic with deterministic triggers and scripts.
• 5. Monitor agent behavior and adjust guardrails as needed.

Доказательства

A few turns in, the agent would make a decision, act on it, and then reconsider the same thing later as if it had never happened.

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One of the agent's tools called an internal service that timed out. Instead of surfacing that as an error, my retry logic and the agent's own instinct to "try again" stacked on top of each other and turned into something close to an infinite loop.

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The agent confidently called an internal function that was never real.

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