EDUCATION & TRAINING
Your ReAct Agent Is Wasting 90% of Its Retries — Here’s How to Stop It
Towards Data Science
About This Tutorial
Most ReAct-style agents are silently wasting their retry budget on errors that can never succeed. In a 200-task benchmark, 90.8% of retries were spent on hallucinated tool calls - not model mistakes, but architectural flaws. This article shows why prompt tuning won’t fix it, and the three structural changes that eliminate wasted retries entirely.