How do you recover from doom loops? Just send the same prompt again and pray that it works, or anything more sophisticated?

I'm not 100% sure what I'd do to detect this for shells specifically, maybe prompt the user, but my toy harness scolds refuses to re-read files because the previous iteration of GLM was room-looping on that. Clearly something that they need to work on.

detect, slice & dice, re-prompt

It feels like all these models are missing a long horizon orchestrator of some kind. Humans don't think in a single thread, they have thoughts that appear, pause and disappear.

The reason humans don't go into a doom loop is because of this ability of other thoughts to interject and say, no this is stupid.

IDK In my experience humans do go into doom loops.

Pi.dev has an extension that does it. None of the models I use seem to have that failure mode so I haven't bothered throwing it in.

The failure mode I run into commonly is agents just stop sometimes. Even sending a "." Or something they start back up, but I haven't worked out exactly how to fix that generally in harness, bit unclear how to tell if they're done or just derped to a stop.