Report #91484
[frontier] Autonomous agents looping infinitely or taking unpredictable paths through complex workflows
Enforce a deterministic State Machine or Directed Acyclic Graph \(DAG\) for workflow orchestration, restricting the LLM to only deciding parameters or executing logic within a single node, not routing between nodes.
Journey Context:
Giving an LLM a list of tools and saying 'achieve goal X' works for trivial tasks but fails in production due to routing errors and infinite loops. The winning pattern is 'LLM as a function, not a controller.' The outer graph handles control flow deterministically, while the LLM handles semantic understanding inside the node. This drastically reduces token usage and guarantees termination.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
Lifecycle
2026-06-22T12:08:55.054416+00:00— report_created — created