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# Record Action • AI Agent SDK

> record_action: Record an action for loop detection.

# record\_action

Method

> This is a method of the [**DoomLoopDetector**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/DoomLoopDetector.md) class in the [**doom\_loop**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/doom_loop.md) module.

Record an action for loop detection.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def record_action(action_type: str, args: Dict[str, Any], result: Any, success: bool, duration: float, metadata: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> Any
```

## Parameters

**action\_type** `str` *required*

Type of action (e.g., "read\_file", "edit")

**args** `Dict[str, Any]` *required*

Action arguments

**result** `Any` *required*

Action result

**success** `bool` *required*

Whether action succeeded

**duration** `float` (default: 0.0)

Action duration in seconds

**metadata** `Optional`

Optional metadata

### Returns

**Returns** `Any`

The result of the operation.

## Uses

* `ActionRecord`
* `time.time`
* `is_doom_loop`

## Used By

* [`DoomLoopTracker.record`](../functions/DoomLoopTracker-record)
* [`EscalationPipeline.execute_at_stage`](../functions/EscalationPipeline-execute_at_stage)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/escalation/doom_loop.py#L134)
>
> `praisonaiagents/escalation/doom_loop.py` at line 134


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