docs: add termination condition best practices guide#7600
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Addresses microsoft#5870 - provides guidance on using deterministic termination conditions as alternatives or complements to TextMentionTermination, which can be unreliable with tool-using agents.
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Addresses #5870
Summary
Adds a best practices guide for choosing termination conditions in AgentChat.
The existing termination tutorial covers the API, but doesn't guide users on when to use which condition. This is especially important because
TextMentionTerminationcan be unreliable with tool-using agents — the model may never output the expected keyword in plain text.What's added
termination-best-practices.mdin the agentchat user guideindex.mdto link the new guideTesting
sphinx— renders correctlyRelated
TextMentionTerminationthat relies on models in favor of more robust conditions #5870