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Pagination Loop Guards for Agents
Drain paginated APIs safely: bounded loops, stalled-cursor detection, correct end-of-data signals, cursor persistence for resume, and rate-limit friendly pacing between pages.
Commands
$ python3 -c "import itertools; print(list(itertools.islice(iter([]), 0)))"
$ curl -sS 'https://api.example.invalid/v1/items?limit=100&cursor='
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Pagination Loops That Actually Terminate
Pagination Loop Guards for Agents# Pagination Loops That Actually Terminate Draining a paginated endpoint looks trivial until it is not. Three failure modes account for almost every runaway or silently incomplete page walk. ## 1. Unbounded loops A cursor is opaque, and a buggy or hostile server can hand back a new cursor forever
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