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Tool-call loop guardrail halt and recovery behavior

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 53959 · agent

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3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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2open issues
1open PR
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
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Still open
2 issues and 1 PR.

These issues and PRs concern how the agent handles tool-call loop guardrail triggers, specifically whether a hard stop should silently halt the task or first give the model an opportunity to recover or use fallback strategies before ending the turn.

Open issues2

  • Issue#53959[Feature Request] same_tool_failure_halt guardrail should support fallback strategies instead of hard stop
  • Issue#64322[Bug]: Tool loop guardrail hard-stop silently halts task and requires manual prompt instead of allowing model recovery

Open PRs1

  • PR#92433fix(agent): rebound once after blocked tool batch

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: stale or abandoned 1

  • #64363 fix(agent): let guardrail hard-stop give the model one rebound before halting · stale or abandoned
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  • Pairwise link density 0.39: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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