1 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
vikingowl 397a39250c feat(engine): early-stop detection for runaway agent loops
Adds three lightweight per-turn detectors that fire corrective user
messages back into the conversation when the model goes off the rails:

- RepetitionDetector: sliding-window scan over streamed text deltas;
  trips when a 50/80/120-char pattern repeats >= 3 times in the trailing
  200 chars. Breaks the active stream and injects a correction.
- PatchFailureTracker: per-path counter for fs.edit/fs.write failures;
  trips on the 4th consecutive failure and steers the model to fs.write
  rather than another fs.edit on the same path. Success decrements with
  a floor of 0; paths are isolated.
- DetectGreeting: narrow allowlist for "how can I help" style replies;
  only consulted after a round that used tools, so first-turn greetings
  don't false-positive.

Detector state is per-turn (declared locally in runLoop), single-
goroutine use. Corrective messages are appended as user-role text to
both engine history and the context window. Telemetry: each trigger
logs at INFO with round + path where applicable.

Covered by 12 unit tests for the primitives and 5 loop-level integration
tests that drive the full agentic loop via the existing eventStream
mock.
2026-05-19 17:39:35 +02:00