ConceptNaive Self-Reflection Loop
Naive Self-Reflection Loop
An early agent architecture that delegates loop termination to the model's natural-language reflection judgement, lacking a hard step limit and exhibiting a very high rate of runaway behaviour.
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Oct 16
In a benchmark of four enterprise agent architectures under 100 injected fault conditions (transient network timeouts, schema mismatches, empty search results), the naive self-reflection loop had an unconstrained runaway rate of 42.0%, median token consumption of 148,500 for failed tasks, mean time to failure of 18.4 minutes, and per-incident financial risk of $12.40.
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