How We Stop AI Agents from Going Rogue Inside WordPress (Spin Detection, Token Budgets, and Checkpoints)
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If you've ever built an AI agent that interacts with a real system — not a chatbot, an agent that reads data, makes decisions, and executes actions — you know the terrifying moment when it starts looping. It reads a post. Tries to edit it. Gets an unexpected response. Reads the same post again. Tries the same edit. Gets the same response. Burns through $4 of API tokens in 30 seconds doing absolutely nothing useful. We hit this problem building PressArk, an AI co-pilot that lives inside the Wor