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    Pythonlangchain-classicagentsagentAgentExecutorearly_stopping_method
    Attribute●Since v1.0

    early_stopping_method

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    early_stopping_method: str = 'force'
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    The method to use for early stopping if the agent never returns AgentFinish. Either 'force' or 'generate'.

    "force" returns a string saying that it stopped because it met a time or iteration limit.

    "generate" calls the agent's LLM Chain one final time to generate a final answer based on the previous steps.