OODA Debug Cards for Stuck Agent Sessions
Recall OODA-based interventions for stuck or repetitive coding-agent sessions.
OODA What are the four moves for a stuck agent session? Loop Retry vs. reorient Compare Retry only helps after the agent has new information or a corrected frame. The agent says: I made another attempt, but the same test still fails. I made another attempt, but the same test still fails. The agent is looping on implementation. Your line Stop editing. Summarize the latest failure, name the assumption your last fix made, and propose two different hypotheses before changing code. Asking for a third patch without changing the reasoning frame. It moves the session back to Observe and Orient…
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