Mid-level interview question
What stopping conditions would you put on an agent?
Model answer
Limits on steps, cost, wall-clock time, repeated identical calls and consecutive failures, all checked by the harness. Anthropic recommends stopping conditions such as a maximum number of iterations.
When one fires, checkpoint, report what was and wasn't done, and hand over.
Practise the rest
6 Bounded autonomy questions, 492 in all, each with a model answer. Free.