
How to Stop an AI Agent Tool Loop—and Keep It Stopped
Stop new tool execution, preserve verified results, and reconcile any uncertain write before resuming. A turn limit contains a loop; progress checks and operation records make recovery safer.

Stop new tool execution, preserve verified results, and reconcile any uncertain write before resuming. A turn limit contains a loop; progress checks and operation records make recovery safer.

Start with the final outbound request. Use the instruction field and message positions supported by that exact endpoint, preserve tool-call pairs, and verify the full task after the role error clears.

A Cyber Abuse email is a warning or a deactivation. If you are locked out, send one complete appeal, request your data, and stop the next charge where you pay.

For direct Anthropic API access, set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and approve it in the interactive CLI. Gateways need their own endpoint and credential; cloud providers and Desktop use separate configuration paths.

Start with /context for session drift, check loaded instructions before editing memory, and verify Context7 authentication and returned docs before adding another server.

Start by locating the context growth: before a tool call, after a large result, or across repeated attempts. Then change discovery, output, or conversation history and verify that the same task still works.

To use DeepSeek in Claude Code, choose OpenRouter's gateway or DeepSeek's Anthropic-compatible endpoint. Each needs its own key and model names; a successful reply alone does not confirm the model or coding-tool compatibility.

For an Opus 4.7 `top_p deprecated` error, omit sampling fields from the final request your client sends. Native Messages and Bedrock Converse put those fields in different places; keep the same model and task when checking the fix.

Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 token prices. On Artificial Analysis tests it costs less per task from low to xhigh effort and about 51% more at max.

Temporarily unable to authenticate comes from Anthropic: stay signed in and retry. Login expired or Failed to authenticate means /login. The wording decides.

A Codex token-exchange 403 is a refused authentication request. The full error tells you whether to repair callback access, check the client’s network, renew stored credentials, or stop for an access restriction.

Use Files and Interactions for recordings, or the Live API for raw PCM captions. Vocabulary biasing and recorded speaker or word annotations require separate configurations.

The official Batch API cuts Gemini 3 Pro Image output prices to $0.067 for 1K/2K and $0.12 for 4K, before input and thinking charges. Use it for nonurgent work, budget for all billed tokens, and match downloaded images to their request keys.

As of October 6, 2026, only GPT-6.1 Sol is open to developers. Fable 5.5 is unannounced, Gemini 4 Argon is limited to Fairwind, and GPT-6.1 Astra was canceled.

GPT-6.1 Sol keeps GPT-6 Sol's $2/$10 rates but halves cached input to $0.10. Requests using none effort or Chat Completions tools must change.

Block the next unaffordable model request before dispatch: reserve its maximum cost against the shared run budget, reconcile the billable result, and keep budget stops terminal across retries and helpers.

As of October 6, 2026, Google hasn't announced Nano Banana 2.1. It showed up in Google Flow for some users, then reportedly vanished. No API or price exists.

For a confirmed Nano Banana 2 503 response, retry with jitter within an attempt and time budget. Keep the image workflow intact, verify image output, and defer work when recovery cannot fit the deadline.

If Pro returns a restriction message or no image, first recover the correct Pro route: More → Redo with Pro in Gemini, the Pro menu in eligible AI Mode accounts, or gemini-3-pro-image in the API. Then check the actual response before calling the failure a policy block.

For "Unsupported file URI type," check the exact image value your app sent and the endpoint that rejected it. Native Gemini can accept supported HTTPS URLs; local paths, unresolved templates and base64 data URLs need a different payload. Verify the repair by getting an edited image from the same Pro request.

For APIConnectionError, capture the underlying exception and test DNS, TLS, proxy settings, and the exact endpoint from the failing runtime. An HTTP response narrows the problem; recovery still requires a successful request through the original application.

For OpenAI API quota exceeded or insufficient_quota, inspect error.code before buying credits or retrying. A depleted balance, enforced spend cap, and approved usage limit need different fixes; ChatGPT subscriptions do not fund API calls.

The Assistants API has shut down. Restore configuration and available history from your own records, run custom functions through a complete Responses loop, and switch traffic with a recovery path that works today.

For transcripts, start with transcription. For a spoken assistant, compare Realtime—including mini—with the whole STT–LLM–TTS stack. A ten-minute call is not ten minutes of user audio plus ten minutes of assistant audio.