Unattended Agents: How Do You Handle Done-Verification, Stalls and Hard Limits?
Real_KingZeotic · reddit · 2026-09-21
A developer running agents unattended catalogs the four recurring problems and asks for real solutions:
- Done verification: how do you confirm the task actually finished, not just that the agent said so?
- Stall detection: catching agents that loop or stall while still emitting valid output.
- Hard limits: spend/time/tool-call ceilings — framework setting, gateway, or custom wrapper?
- Pause/resume/cancel: can you stop a run midway and pick it back up?
Their observation: most people build custom wrappers plus a kill switch — is there anything better?
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