ReAct Agents Squander 90% of Retries on Architectural Flaws, Not Model Errors

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The Brief

ReAct-style AI agents waste nearly 91% of their retry attempts on hallucinated tool calls caused by structural design flaws, not model mistakes, according to a 200-task benchmark analysis. Prompt tuning cannot fix the issue; three specific architectural changes are required to eliminate wasted retries entirely.

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