ReCAP

A stuck workflow rarely looks intelligent. It looks like a support agent asking for the same invoice twice, a coding agent editing the wrong file for the third time, or an operations bot patiently repeating an invalid action because, apparently, persistence is cheaper than understanding. This is the unglamorous failure mode of many LLM agents. They do not collapse because they cannot produce a plan. They collapse because the plan becomes stale, buried, or locally contradicted by new observations. The agent remembers the latest step and forgets the job. ...

A user starts by asking for Italian restaurants, answers a few clarification questions, then changes their mind and asks for Mexican instead. A human hears the reversal. A planner may hear: pizza, pasta, Italian, Mexican, recommendations, and perhaps a vague invitation to overachieve. Naturally, it may then produce a plan with the confidence of a consultant who attended only half the meeting. ...