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AI · October 6, 2026

AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops

A reverse proxy that detects recursive agent loops and enforces spend caps in volatile memory, without retaining prompt payloads.

AI Circuit Breaker – Reverse proxy to stop agent infinite loops launched on October 6, 2026 with 9 votes, #602 of 3,290 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

A drop-in reverse proxy that catches infinite tool loops and enforces hard spend caps in volatile RAM. Sub-35ms overhead. Zero payload retention. The agent repeats the same database write after an unchanged retry. Requests are checked against hourly and daily account caps before they are sent upstream. The bars below illustrate cap windows, not live account utilization. Performance figures are engineering targets and depend on deployment, network conditions, and request profile. An unhandled SQL error leaves an agent retrying the same tool call at 120 attempts per minute. In this example, the sliding deque recognizes the repeat at attempt three and interrupts the cycle before the remaining…from circuit-breaker-sage.vercel.app

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