Your Agent Loop Is Lying About Being Done: Writing Verifiable Stop Conditions
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TL;DR — A loop is only as trustworthy as its stop condition. "Done" has to be checkable by a different model — tests pass, lint clean, schema validates — never the worker's own claim. Below: why self-grading fails, the four rungs of verification, a checker-agent template you can copy, and the three…
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- 2026-08-23 01:30 · DEV Community — AI
Your Agent Loop Is Lying About Being Done: Writing Verifiable Stop Conditions