Termination Condition

The rule that tells an agent when to stop looping and return a final answer, whether that's reaching the goal, hitting a step limit, or running out of budget.

Anti-example: Just running until the output looks finished isn't a termination condition — without an explicit rule, agents can loop indefinitely burning tokens.

• often confused with Loop DetectionBoth stop an agent from running forever, but a termination condition is a rule set in advance while loop detection catches actual repeated behavior at runtime.