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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 22, 2026

When should a voice agent decide to hang up? The three-strike pattern

A builder asks how to decide when a voice agent should end a call — the hardest edge case of phone agents. The recommended pattern is an explicit end-call tool the agent invokes on closing cues, with a three-strike rule: silence, one polite check-in, then goodbye. Logging every hangup decision in the first month reveals the real edge cases.

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