All articles tagged with "AI Agents"
An agent without explicit exit conditions will retry a failing action indefinitely, burning tokens and potentially causing cascading failures. This prompt pattern adds retry limits, failure detection, and clean abort behavior.
Agents on long multi-step tasks lose track of their objective and drift toward tangents. This prompt makes the agent produce structured progress summaries at defined intervals, keeping it oriented and recoverable.
Agents that execute immediately on ambiguous instructions create problems that are expensive to reverse. This prompt pattern makes the agent identify ambiguity, surface specific questions, and wait for confirmation before taking action.
