#stop-conditions
Every post tagged "stop-conditions".
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An Agent That Cannot Fail Will Retry Forever. Budget Tokens and Wall-Clock, Not Retry Counts.
Your max_retries=3 never fires, because every search call succeeds. The agent just keeps finding new ways to look for an answer that doesn't exist. Here is the budget that actually stops it, and the exit that lets it stop politely.
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Who Decides the Agent Is Done? Three Stop Conditions, and Why "The Model Said So" Isn't One
Most first agents end their loop when the model stops calling tools — which means the model, not you, decides what "done" means. Here are the three stop conditions a real loop needs, and the twenty lines that turn a silent wrong answer into another iteration.