Breaking the Loop: Resolving State Deadlocks in Autonomous Multi-Agent DAGs

When a Researcher agent and a Critic agent enter an infinite refinement ping-pong loop, your API bill explodes while your user waits forever. Here is how to implement Monotonic Convergence Metrics and Deadlock Circuit Breakers in LangGraph.

Written and maintained by Hassan Nazir, Forward Deployed Engineer and Applied AI practitioner.