Lesson 1334 of 1570
Telling Your Agent When to Actually Stop
Define a clear success signal so the agent does not loop forever.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2stop condition
- 3success signal
- 4iteration cap
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Section 1
The big idea
agents need an explicit done condition or they will burn tokens forever
Some examples
- All tests pass and the diff is under 100 lines
- The user said yes to the final summary
- A timer hit 10 iterations
Try it!
Open your favorite AI tool and try one of the examples above. Pick the one that matches what you are actually working on this week. Spend 10 minutes, no more. Notice what worked and what did not — that's the real lesson.
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