Abstract
An autonomous error-remediation (AER) agent that runs in the same process as the software it repairs faces a structural instability absent from out-of-band remediation systems: it consumes the very telemetry stream it emits. Its diagnostic logs, its "ticket escalated" notices, its patch-apply chatter — all land back in the shared in-memory log buffer it polls for errors. Left unbounded, this closed loop self-excites: one real error produces a ticket, the ticket produces log output, the log output is parsed as a new error, and the agent oscillates or floods without ever converging. This publication discloses a Reflexive-Feedback Stability Envelope: a composition of six interlocking guards — a reflexive self-exclusion filter, a dual-budget rate limiter, fingerprint deduplication with occurrence bumping, a per-fingerprint attempt ceiling with cooldown, byte-identical duplicate-patch rejection, and do-not-repeat prompt injection of prior failed diffs — that bounds every feedback path so the repair loop is guaranteed to reach a terminal state (fixed, escalated, or quiesced) rather than oscillate. We establish dated, enabling public prior art over the mechanism and its clean-room reference implementation.
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Assuncao, gustavo matthew, "Reflexive-Feedback Stability Envelope for an In-Process Autonomous Code-Repair Agent", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
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