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Why do agentic systems need explicit guardrails like max iteration limits?

Without a hard cap, a model that gets stuck in a reasoning loop (repeatedly deciding 'I need more info' without converging) can call tools indefinitely, burning cost and time with no forward progress — a max-iterations or max-cost limit forces the loop to terminate and fall back to a 'couldn't complete this' response instead of running forever.

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