Debugging Claude Cowork: Loops, Bad Tool Calls, Hallucinated Args
Diagnose and fix the three failure modes of Claude Cowork agents — runaway loops, wrong tool calls, and hallucinated arguments — with concrete fixes.
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Diagnose and fix the three failure modes of Claude Cowork agents — runaway loops, wrong tool calls, and hallucinated arguments — with concrete fixes.
Stop Claude data analytics agents from looping, calling the wrong tool, or hallucinating SQL arguments — concrete fixes, logging, and a replayable debug loop.
CNA turnover breaks per-seat AI pricing. Here is when a multi-building nursing home group should host an open model, and what it costs in people and hardware.
What to put in a Claude agent's context, what to leave out, and why — context design, just-in-time skills, and structure for reliable, token-efficient agents.
Prompt and context design for Claude analytics agents: what to include, what to leave out, progressive disclosure, grounding, and iterating on real questions.
What to put in a Claude Code skill's context and what to leave out: context budgeting, ordering, negative instructions, and avoiding agent-derailing bloat.
What to put in a Claude Cowork agent's context, what to leave out, and why — context-engineering rules that make agentic runs sharper, cheaper, and reliable.
Production patterns for wiring tools and MCP servers into Claude agents: scoped auth, typed schemas, three-bucket error handling, and idempotent writes.
Wire MCP servers into a Claude analytics agent the right way: server-side auth, safe tool schemas, structured error handling, and idempotency for retries.
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