The agent conversation on Reddit and in GitHub issues has moved. A year ago it was "what can agents do". Now it is "why does mine call the same tool nineteen times", and "what happens to my threads on August 26". Here are five problems that keep coming up, each with the specific fact I had to dig out to answer it. Every one of them has a number attached, because "it depends" is not an answer you can ship. 1. Your agent loops because tool_choice sticks The advice everyone giv...