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StuckLoopDetection: How We Stopped an Agent Burning $12 on 47 Identical Calls
Published on April 13, 2026By DEV Community
TL;DR: Most agent loops aren't model failures — they're mechanical repetitions that the model itself doesn't recognize. pydantic-deep v0.3.8 introduces StuckLoopDetection, a capability that catches three loop patterns before they waste tokens. This is post 1/3 in the "Self-Aware Agents" series. Overview of all 5 releases here. Here's the incident that made this necessary. A coding agent was working on a refactor task overnight. It hit a file with an unusual import pattern, couldn't parse the res
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