@blockrun/franklin 3.15.29 → 3.15.30

package/dist/agent/loop.js

@@ -615,19 +615,23 @@ export async function interactiveSession(config, getUserInput, onEvent, onAbortR
         const HARD_TOOL_CAP = MAX_TOOL_CALLS_PER_TURN * 2;
         let toolCapWarned = false; // Log + inject only once per turn
         const SAME_TOOL_WARN_THRESHOLD = 3; // Warn after N calls to same tool (lowered from 5 — search loops were wasting turns)
-        // Hard stop at 2× the warn threshold. The previous loop injected
-        // "[SYSTEM] STOP" on every call past 3 (verified 2026-05-04 in a real
-        // Opus-4.7 session: Opus saw 4 STOP messages, made 4 more Bash calls
-        // anyway). Strong models read the system tool_result, briefly
-        // acknowledge, then call the same tool again — the soft injection
-        // doesn't actually constrain behavior. Hard stop matches what
-        // HARD_TOOL_CAP already does for total tool count.
-        const SAME_TOOL_HARD_STOP = SAME_TOOL_WARN_THRESHOLD * 2;
+        // Repetition-based hard stop. 3.15.28 used a count-based threshold
+        // (Bash called 6× → break) which incorrectly killed legitimate
+        // exploratory data work — verified 2026-05-04 in a real Opus session
+        // running data-engineering on GCS logs: 15 distinct gsutil/bq calls,
+        // each producing new insights, would have been cut off at call 6.
+        // 3.15.30 detects ACTUAL loops by tracking the (tool, input)
+        // signature: only break when the model calls the SAME signature 3
+        // times in one turn. Different inputs → exploration, allowed.
+        const SAME_SIGNATURE_HARD_STOP = 3;
         // Tracks which tool names have already had a warn injected this turn.
         // Without it, every call past threshold pushes another [SYSTEM] STOP
         // tool_result into the model's context — same shape bug as the cap
         // spam fixed in 3.15.24, just in a sibling guardrail.
         const sameToolWarned = new Set();
+        // Tracks how many times each (tool, input)-signature has been called
+        // this turn. Different inputs → different signatures → exploration.
+        const turnSignatureCounts = new Map();
         // ── No-progress guardrail: kill infinite tiny-response loops ──
         let consecutiveTinyResponses = 0; // Count of consecutive calls with <10 output tokens
         const MAX_TINY_RESPONSES = 2; // Break after N tiny responses — if 2 calls return near-empty, something is wrong
@@ -1495,6 +1499,10 @@ export async function interactiveSession(config, getUserInput, onEvent, onAbortR
             for (const [inv] of results) {
                 const name = inv.name;
                 turnToolCounts.set(name, (turnToolCounts.get(name) || 0) + 1);
+                // Track (tool, input)-signature for the loop detector below.
+                // Identical signatures → real loop. Different inputs → exploration.
+                const sig = toolCallSignature(name, inv.input);
+                turnSignatureCounts.set(sig, (turnSignatureCounts.get(sig) || 0) + 1);
                 // Session-scope aggregate (drives telemetry opt-in export).
                 sessionToolCounts.set(name, (sessionToolCounts.get(name) || 0) + 1);
                 // Read file dedup: track paths already read
@@ -1555,14 +1563,12 @@ export async function interactiveSession(config, getUserInput, onEvent, onAbortR
             // Re-injecting on every subsequent call (the pre-3.15.28 behavior)
             // just spammed the model's context: Opus-4.7 verified to ignore 4
             // sequential "STOP" messages and keep calling Bash. Cleaner contract:
-            // one nudge at the threshold, then if the model ignores it past
-            // SAME_TOOL_HARD_STOP, break the turn.
-            let sameToolHardStopHit = null;
+            // one nudge at the threshold, and the loop detector below catches
+            // genuine stuck loops via input-signature repetition (3.15.30
+            // replaced 3.15.28's count-based hard stop — that broke legitimate
+            // exploratory data work where 15 distinct gsutil/bq calls were
+            // each producing new insights).
             for (const [name, count] of turnToolCounts) {
-                if (count >= SAME_TOOL_HARD_STOP) {
-                    sameToolHardStopHit = name;
-                    continue;
-                }
                 if (count === SAME_TOOL_WARN_THRESHOLD && !sameToolWarned.has(name)) {
                     sameToolWarned.add(name);
                     outcomeContent.push({
@@ -1573,6 +1579,17 @@ export async function interactiveSession(config, getUserInput, onEvent, onAbortR
                     });
                 }
             }
+            // True loop detector: same (tool, input) signature repeated.
+            // Catches the actual failure mode (model retrying the exact same
+            // call hoping for a different result) without misfiring on
+            // legitimate exploration where each call has different input.
+            let stuckSignature = null;
+            for (const [sig, count] of turnSignatureCounts) {
+                if (count >= SAME_SIGNATURE_HARD_STOP) {
+                    stuckSignature = { sig, count };
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
             // Hard cap: nudge the model to stop. Inject once per turn —
             // re-injecting on every iteration past the cap is just noise
             // and clutters the model's context with repeated stop signals.
@@ -1634,19 +1651,20 @@ export async function interactiveSession(config, getUserInput, onEvent, onAbortR
                 onEvent({ kind: 'turn_done', reason: 'cap_exceeded' });
                 break;
             }
-            // Same-tool hard stop. Strong models (Opus, GPT-5.5) sometimes
-            // read the warn injection, briefly acknowledge it, and call the
-            // same tool again — the soft signal is ineffective. Break the
-            // turn here when one tool name crosses the hard threshold to
-            // stop the search loop. Verified 2026-05-04: Opus-4.7 made 4
-            // Bash calls past 3 nags before this break would have triggered
-            // (at 6).
-            if (sameToolHardStopHit) {
-                const count = turnToolCounts.get(sameToolHardStopHit) ?? 0;
-                logger.error(`[franklin] Same-tool hard stop: ${sameToolHardStopHit} called ${count} times this turn — model ignoring soft warn, ending turn`);
+            // Signature-based hard stop (3.15.30). The original 3.15.28 fired
+            // on count alone (Bash 6× → break), which incorrectly killed
+            // legitimate data-engineering work — the same Opus-4.7 session
+            // verified at 2026-05-04 13:36 was making 15 distinct gsutil/bq
+            // calls, each producing new insights. Now we only break when the
+            // SAME (tool, input) signature has been called 3× — the actual
+            // failure mode of "model retrying the exact same call hoping
+            // something changes". Different inputs = exploration, allowed.
+            if (stuckSignature) {
+                const toolName = stuckSignature.sig.split('::')[0];
+                logger.error(`[franklin] Signature-loop hard stop: \`${toolName}\` called with identical input ${stuckSignature.count} times this turn — ending turn`);
                 onEvent({
                     kind: 'text_delta',
-                    text: `\n\n⚠️ ${sameToolHardStopHit} called ${count}× in one turn — that's a search loop. Ending turn so you don't burn through credits. Rephrase what you actually need, or try a different model with \`/model\`.\n`,
+                    text: `\n\n⚠️ ${toolName} called ${stuckSignature.count}× with the same input this turn — that's a real loop, not exploration. Ending turn. Rephrase what you actually need, or try \`/model\` to switch.\n`,
                 });
                 onEvent({ kind: 'turn_done', reason: 'cap_exceeded' });
                 break;

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@blockrun/franklin",
-  "version": "3.15.29",
+  "version": "3.15.30",
   "description": "Franklin — The AI agent with a wallet. Spends USDC autonomously to get real work done. Pay per action, no subscriptions.",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {