When Should an Agent Stop? The Anatomy of Termination (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on May 27, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Can Demir Originally published on Towards AI. A deep dive into the part of agent harness engineering most tutorials skip If you have written an LLM agent in the last two years, you have written something like this: The article argues that the “while not done” loop is not boring scaffolding but the core engineering challenge: deciding when an LLM agent should stop, and what to do when stopping is uncertain. It reframes termination as a ...