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 t...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/shipwithaiio/your-agent-loop-is-lying-about-being-done-writing-verifiable-stop-conditions-270p)