In agent-based AI, thinking should be fluid, not locked in a recursive chokehold.
🚦 Problem: Blocking Loops Kill Parallelism
LangGraph's looping structure is elegant on paper simple retry branches, conditional checks, and reruns. But there's a catch.
Loops in LangGraph block execution. When an agent hits a loop, the entire workflow must wait. Nothing else runs until that loop finishes its retry-check cycle. That might be fine for scripts. But for cognition, it’s deadly.
🧬 OrKa's Breakthrough: Coroutine Loops
OrKa introduces a dedicated LoopNode
. It doesn't hijack the orchestrator’s timeline it spins up a scoped cognitive subprocess.
- Forks memory context
- Runs multiple agents in parallel
- Evaluates AGREEMENT_SCORE
- Decides to exit or re-run
- Writes back memory
This loop isn’t a trap! It's a thought capsule. You can have three loops resolving internal decisions while the main graph continues reacting, branching, moving.
Because thinking needs freedom, not cascade evolution.
Modular. Explainable. Runnable anywhere.
💻 Orka: https://orkacore.com
🧪 Docs + install: pip install orka-reasoning
Follow if you’re serious about traceable AI reasoning. No black boxes.
“I didn’t build OrKa because I thought the world needed another SDK.
I built it because I was sick of watching agents play ping-pong with prompts while pretending to think.”
Top comments (2)
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Love this! That’s exactly what it feels like half the time - I throw a prompt in, the agent stares off into the existential abyss for a while, and then: 🕳️ ...crickets.
Exactly. We keep calling it “reasoning,” but most frameworks are just duct-taped I/O pipes in a trench coat. They wait. They loop. They bluff.
Real cognition moves, it branches, remembers, questions, restarts itself.
OrKa's whole point is: stop babysitting the prompt. Give your agents a structure that lets them actually think.
Appreciate the resonance, Ashley.