My Hermes agent's stop condition was a 40-line if/elif chain. I replaced it with 3 lines.

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge.

My Hermes research agent's stop logic had grown into a 40-line if/elif block. Stop after 20 turns. Stop if cost exceeds $2. Stop if the response contains "FINAL ANSWER". Stop if the last tool called was "write_summary". Each condition was written out longhand, tested independently, and hard to reuse across different agents.

I extracted the pattern into agent-loop-stop.

Three lines replace forty