Self-healing is the pattern where an Agent notices that a step failed — a compile error, malformed JSON, an API returning 500 — and recovers by replanning and retrying. It's built on top of the Reflection Pattern and the Evaluation Loop: the agent inspects its own output, folds the error into context, and tries again. Coding agents such as Cursor and Claude Code rely on this mechanism to fix lint and test failures automatically. It's critical for production reliability, but without bounds it can loop indefinitely or quietly burn budget.
MEVZU N°124ISTANBULYEAR I — VOL. III
Glossary · Intermediate · 2024
Self-Healing
An agent's ability to detect errors or failed steps and automatically recover from them.
- EN — English term
- Self-Healing
- TR — Turkish term
- Öz-Düzelten