Term -- Boot the Dog

Term -- Boot the Dog

Worker

Boot the Dog: There is a special Dog named Boot who is awakened every 5 minutes by the daemon
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agent task -- trigger type -- cron

, just to check on The Deacon. That’s its only job. Boot exists because the daemon kept interrupting the Deacon with annoying heartbeats and pep talks
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managers needs to maintain focus on ensuring things get done

, so now the dog gets to hear it. Boot decides if the Deacon needs a heartbeat, a nudge, a restart, or simply to be left alone, then goes back to sleep.
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Essentially like having LLM judges check for discrete signals (Boot has a very narrow job of looking for (and judging) a small set of signals and making a decision about whether to bug the Deacon).
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Narrowly scoped just like tasks in a Ralph Wiggum loop are narrowly scoped. And the decision is binary pass or fail evaluation (should I bug the Deacon or not).
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Since the task is small, the Dog gets to use its full brains, since it runs in context window zone -- the smart zone