Agent Hack: Instructing to Continue Until All Work is Complete
tristanbob · x · 2026-08-23
A developer shared a practical prompt engineering hack for AI agents: explicitly instructing the agent to "keep going until ALL work is complete."
Observations show that without this specific constraint, agents often stop after completing only a subset of the work. Enforcing the requirement to finish everything significantly improves completion rates.
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