Architecture and Beyond

Oct 12, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How Do AI Agents Know When to Stop? Strategies and Real-World Implementations

This article explores the essential stop‑condition designs for AI agents, detailing hard limits, task‑completion checks, explicit termination tools, loop detection, error accumulation, and user interruption, and then examines concrete implementations in OpenManus and Gemini CLI with code examples and multi‑layer safeguards.