A good SEO agent knows when to stop.

Define stop, retry, fallback, escalation, and rollback behavior for bounded SEO-agent tasks.

STOP / RETRY / ESCALATE / ROLLBACK

STOP

Permission or rights conflict

Stop immediately when the requested action exceeds scope, requires unapproved paid data, or would expose confidential or personal data.

RETRY

Transient tool failure

Retry only when the error is plausibly transient, the retry limit is not exhausted, and a duplicate write cannot occur.

ASK

Missing evidence

Ask a precise question when a source, target, date range, canonical, or acceptance rule is missing. Do not fill the gap with a guess.

ROLLBACK

Unexpected write outcome

Stop further writes, preserve the log, revert through the approved recovery path, and require human review before resuming.