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Aegis
PromptOpsSRE IMPACT 10/10APACHE 2.0 OPEN-SPECOTEL NATIVE

Aegis

Agent Loop Prevention: Multi-Agent Cyclic Loop Suppression & Deadlock Mitigation Engine

Target Environment:Google Cloud Run / GKE / Self-Hosted Docker
Runtime License & Deployment Tier
Open-Core Developer SDK • Dedicated Enterprise SLA
Active Spec v2.4
$npm install @planetjdigital/aegis
GitHub
Sub-5ms In-Memory Overhead • Zero Data Retention (ZDR) Compliant
🛡️

Autonomous Multi-Model Adversarial Fuzzing Certified

Continuous stress-testing against prompt injections, cyclic parameter drift, and upstream rate limits via Llama 3.3 70B & DeepSeek-R1 (Autonomous Fuzzing).

Robustness Score98/100 PASSED
01Developer Quickstart • Integration Interface

Production Runtime Specification (Aegis)

Direct integration contract for Aegis. Deployable as a native microservice or imported directly into your agent runtime.

"""
Aegis: Agent Loop Prevention & Oscillation Breaker
Detects infinite tool-call loops via sliding-window n-gram trajectory hashing.
"""
import hashlib
from typing import List, Dict, Any, Optional
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

class ToolCallEvent(BaseModel):
    tool_name: str
    arguments_hash: str
    iteration: int

class TrajectoryEvaluation(BaseModel):
    is_oscillating: bool
    detected_cycle_length: int
    confidence_score: float
    mitigation_action: str

class AegisLoopGuard:
    def __init__(self, window_size: int = 6, max_cycle_repetitions: int = 2):
        self.window_size = window_size
        self.max_cycle_repetitions = max_cycle_repetitions
        self.history: List[str] = []

    def record_and_evaluate(self, tool_name: str, args: Dict[str, Any], iteration: int) -> TrajectoryEvaluation:
        # Create deterministic fingerprint of the tool call
        canonical_str = f"{tool_name}:{sorted(args.items())}"
        step_hash = hashlib.sha256(canonical_str.encode()).hexdigest()[:12]
        self.history.append(step_hash)

        # Inspect sliding window for repeating cycles (periods 1 to window/2)
        history_len = len(self.history)
        for period in range(1, (self.window_size // 2) + 1):
            if history_len >= period * self.max_cycle_repetitions:
                pattern = self.history[-period:]
                repeats = True
                for r in range(1, self.max_cycle_repetitions):
                    start_idx = -(period * (r + 1))
                    end_idx = -(period * r)
                    if self.history[start_idx:end_idx] != pattern:
                        repeats = False
                        break
                if repeats:
                    return TrajectoryEvaluation(
                        is_oscillating=True,
                        detected_cycle_length=period,
                        confidence_score=0.98,
                        mitigation_action="HALT_TOOL_EXECUTION_AND_INJECT_SYSTEM_CORRECTION"
                    )

        return TrajectoryEvaluation(
            is_oscillating=False,
            detected_cycle_length=0,
            confidence_score=0.0,
            mitigation_action="PROCEED"
        )
02The Problem & Impact

Production Failure Modes Addressed

⚠️ The Unaddressed Failure Mode

Multi-agent frameworks suffer from infinite execution loops when sub-agents pass ambiguous or poorly formatted instructions back and forth, burning thousands of API dollars in minutes.

⚡ Why Brittle Retries Fail

Implementing rigid manual iteration counters or hardcoded timeouts that terminate the workflow completely and lose all state.

💎 The Deterministic Resolution

Aegis intercepts tool-call trajectories in-memory using sliding-window parameter signature hashing. If cyclic reasoning or oscillating tool arguments are detected, Aegis immediately trips a deterministic circuit breaker and invokes a fallback procedure before token budgets are exhausted.

03System Architecture

Autonomous State Machine & OTel Telemetry

Interactive trace visualizer showing ingress gating, in-memory state transition, and OTel emission.

Aegis• Visual Runtime State Machine
Agent Trajectory Stream
Action History • Tool Call Vectors • State Memory
INGRESS
Sliding-Window Hasher
N-Gram Signature Check
SIG HASHED
Cycle Depth Counter
Recurrence Threshold Guard
MAX DEPTH: 3
CORE RESOLUTION STAGEOVERHEAD < 1.2ms
Aegis
Computing state graph cycles and halting infinite tool-call oscillations...
Sig Depth: 1
Cycle Match: 0
Status: CLEAR
Clean Trajectory Pass
Next Tool Execution Allowed
Infinite Loop Intercept
Emergency Self-Healing DLQ
State Graph Commit
Supervisor Agent Notified
COMMITTED
1. Ingress Gate

Sliding-Window Action Sequence Hasher

2. Core Processing

Graph Cycle Detection & Oscillation Breaker

3. Egress Enforcer

Autonomous Self-Healing Backoff Interceptor

4. OpenTelemetry

Distributed Agent State Snapshot & OTel Egress

04Enterprise Readiness

Enterprise Runtime Specifications & SLA

Zero Data Retention (ZDR) Architecture

Operates strictly in-memory. Prompts and tool arguments are zeroized immediately following circuit evaluation.

VPC & Google Cloud Run Topologies

Deployable as an ephemeral sidecar, containerized Cloud Run microservice, or in-process Python/TS library.

Deterministic Circuit Breaker SLA

99.95% production uptime commitment with automatic graceful degradation on upstream LLM provider outages.

Open-Spec Code Ownership

Full Apache-2.0 core licensing. You maintain absolute ownership of your deployed infrastructure and workflows.

05Verification & Telemetry

Production Benchmark Telemetry

Empirical test telemetry from continuous integration regression suites.

< 3.2ms
P95 Ingress Overhead
100%
Cycle Interception
0 B
Disk State Persisted
99.95%
Service SLA Target

Deploy Aegis to Your Production Cluster

Explore the open-source specification on GitHub or connect with our engineering team to deploy a private, dedicated sandbox cluster on Google Cloud.