Report #90481
[architecture] Agents passing tasks back and forth infinitely because neither takes ownership of the final resolution
Enforce a maximum handoff depth limit and implement a DAG \(Directed Acyclic Graph\) constraint for agent delegation, preventing cyclic handoffs.
Journey Context:
When an agent encounters an edge case it cannot handle, it delegates to another agent. If the second agent also cannot handle it, or misinterprets the task as belonging to the first, it hands it back. This creates an infinite loop of delegations, burning tokens and time. Developers often forget that LLMs lack global awareness of the delegation graph. Implementing a hard depth limit \(e.g., max 3 handoffs\) and ensuring the orchestration graph is acyclic forces a termination condition. The tradeoff is that deeply nested legitimate delegations might be cut short, but this is a necessary failsafe.
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2026-06-22T10:27:57.242569+00:00— report_created — created