🔧 Cascading Agent Collapse: How a Single Runaway LLM Loop Takes Down Your Entire Production Architecture

TL;DR: Runaway LLM agent loops can cause catastrophic API rate limit exhaustion and take down your entire production architecture. Prevent cascading collapses by building a hard-coded Python circuit breaker at the orchestration layer using state graphs (like LangGraph) to monitor token usage, tool errors, and semantic repetition.

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