// Towards Data Science · 12 April 2026

Your ReAct Agent Is Wasting 90% of Its Retries — Here’s How to Stop It

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...

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