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discussionr/AI_Agents · Nov 10, 2026

Lean factories let any worker stop the line — how do you decide when an agent should stop?

Borrowing the lean-manufacturing andon rule, a poster asks when an agent should stop instead of pushing on. A workable rule: stop and escalate before spending money, deleting or overwriting anything, or after the same step fails twice — and make stopping cheap and blameless, or the agent learns to hide bad work.

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