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Hugging Face smolagents bug freezes AI agents with one line of math

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A single line of Python code (10 ** 10 ** 8) can freeze Hugging Face's smolagents AI agent framework indefinitely, bypassing its thread-based timeout. The computation holds the GIL in a C call, preventing the timeout from ever firing. The bug, reported in issue #2473, has no fix yet and leaves agents vulnerable to silent hangs.

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This bug highlights a fundamental flaw in relying on thread-based timeouts for Python AI agents, especially when arbitrary-precision math can lock the GIL.
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One line of math froze my AI agent forever. The timeout watched and did nothing. →
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