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How does an agent know when it is done?

The runaway loop gets all the attention. The failure that actually ships is the agent that declares victory on step 4 with half the work missing. The signal is a finish tool the harness can reject, and a completion check that reads the artifact instead of taking the model's word for it.

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The runaway loop gets all the attention. The failure that actually ships is the agent that declares victory on step 4 with half the work missing. The signal is a finish tool the harness can reject, and a completion check that reads the artifact instead of taking the model's word for it.

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