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Your Agent Is Not Stuck, It Is Looping. There Is a Difference and It Costs You Either Way

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A team running a customer support agent filed an internal incident report in early 2026. The agent had been handling a refund request. Midway through, it called an order lookup tool that had started returning a timeout error. The agent retried. Timed out again. Retried. Timed out. Four hundred times in five minutes.

No alert fired. No error surfaced to the user. The support ticket stayed in "in progress" status. The agent was busy by every external signal it was doing something but it had not moved forward in four minutes and fifty-nine seconds.

That is not a failure. That is a loop problem. And loop problems are the engineering challenge of 2026 that most teams are not treating as a first-class concern.

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