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max_iterations is a guess because it ignores the one thing that tells you whether to stop: the trajectory of the error. Here’s how LoopGain reads that trajectory — loop gain, a log-space trend fit, and a t-test — to decide an agent loop is done.

Most agent tooling tells you what happened after the loop ran. A smaller category acts while the loop is still running. Here’s the landscape, drawn on the line that matters: observe versus control.