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When Agents Loop Forever: 4 Root Causes and How to Stop Them

DEV.to AIΒ·May 31, 2026

AI agents can get stuck in perpetual loops due to improper prompt engineering, such as continuously concatenating conversation history. This expands the context, exhausts API quotas, and incurs significant costs by repeatedly asking the same question or triggering rate limits.

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