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Stopping Criteria and Infinite Loop Prevention (ANSWERED)

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Medium AI Agents interview question on stopping criteria and infinite loop prevention — architecture, trade-offs, eval, and production patterns.

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Set max iterations, duplicate-action detection, goal-completion checks, and wall-clock timeouts. Detect oscillating tool calls; escalate to human or fallback response instead of burning tokens.

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Explain stopping criteria and infinite loop prevention. How would you apply this when building production AI agents? Cover architecture, safety, and evaluation.

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