Lesson 1838 of 2116
AI and agent stop conditions
Define when an agent should pause for human input instead of looping forever.
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What this lesson covers
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2stop condition
- 3human-in-the-loop
- 4budget
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Section 1
The premise
Agents that loop until done can spend money and credibility fast. Good stop conditions are explicit, testable, and conservative.
What AI does well here
- Suggest budget caps (tokens, time, dollars).
- Identify checkpoints to surface to a human.
- Detect when the agent is making no progress.
What AI cannot do
- Know your business cost of a wrong loop.
- Stop a runaway without infrastructure to kill it.
- Reason about its own failure modes reliably.
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