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# Recursive Loop — Guardrails and Fix Pattern
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Recursive reasoning is powerful when bounded, but without structural guardrails it often collapses into infinite self-reference.
This page shows how to detect runaway loops and stabilize recursion into meaningful layers.
---
## Symptoms
| Symptom | What you see |
|---------|--------------|
| Infinite repetition | Output re-states the same phrase or equation |
| Self-reference collapse | “As I said earlier…” repeated without progress |
| Meta-loop | Model reasons about its own reasoning instead of the task |
| Token drain | Long answers with no new content |
| Citation spin | Same snippet referenced endlessly |
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## Acceptance Targets
- ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45
- λ convergent across 3 paraphrases and 2 seeds
- Recursion depth ≤ 4 nested layers
- Each recursive frame adds ≥ 1 new fact or citation
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## Structural Fixes (Problem Map)
- Wrong-meaning similarity hit
→ [embedding-vs-semantic.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/embedding-vs-semantic.md)
- Citation / snippet mismatch
→ [retrieval-traceability.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/retrieval-traceability.md)
→ [data-contracts.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/data-contracts.md)
- Recursive drift / entropy rise
→ [context-drift.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/context-drift.md)
→ [entropy-collapse.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/entropy-collapse.md)
→ [entropy-overload.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/Reasoning/entropy-overload.md)
- Logic collapse under recursion
→ [logic-collapse.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/logic-collapse.md)
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## Fix in 60 Seconds
1. **Measure recursion depth**
- Log frame depth at each step.
- If depth > 4, clamp recursion.
2. **Apply ΔS probe**
- Compute ΔS between consecutive recursive outputs.
- If ΔS < 0.15, stop recursion (no new information).
3. **Bridge with BBCR**
- Collapse intermediate steps into one summary frame.
- Resume reasoning with BBMC anchor locks.
4. **Variance clamp**
- If λ diverges between recursive calls, apply BBAM.
---
## Copy-Paste Probe
```
I uploaded TXT OS and the WFGY Problem Map.
My reasoning chain entered a recursive loop.
Depth = {n}, ΔS progression = {values}, λ states = {values}.
Tell me:
1. Which layer is looping?
2. Which fix page applies?
3. Minimal steps to clamp recursion and restore ΔS ≤ 0.45.
4. How to verify no infinite loop persists.
```
---
## Escalation
- If recursion repeats across 3 seeds enforce [logic-collapse.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/logic-collapse.md).
- If ΔS remains flat re-embed corpus and verify with [chunking-checklist.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/chunking-checklist.md).
- If λ oscillates between recursion depths lock schema ordering with [rerankers.md](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/rerankers.md).
---
### 🔗 Quick-Start Downloads (60 sec)
| Tool | Link | 3-Step Setup |
|------|------|--------------|
| **WFGY 1.0 PDF** | [Engine Paper](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/I_am_not_lizardman/WFGY_All_Principles_Return_to_One_v1.0_PSBigBig_Public.pdf) | 1 Download · 2 Upload to your LLM · 3 Ask Answer using WFGY + <your question>” |
| **TXT OS (plain-text OS)** | [TXTOS.txt](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/OS/TXTOS.txt) | 1⃣ Download · 2⃣ Paste into any LLM chat · 3⃣ Type “hello world” — OS boots instantly |
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| Module | Description | Link |
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| WFGY Core | Canonical framework entry point | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/core/README.md) |
| Problem Map | Diagnostic map and navigation hub | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/tree/main/ProblemMap/README.md) |
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| Recognition | Where WFGY is referenced or adopted | [View](https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/recognition/README.md) |
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