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Term -- Patrol
Term -- Patrol

long strings of steps to follow, encoded as linked beads. Basically a workflow.

A Town level concept

Patrols are done by The Deacon and The Witness

General Notes

agent task -- trigger type -- cron

Backlinks

Annotated version of 'Welcome to Gas Town'

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^ Term -- Patrol

long strings of steps to follow, encoded as linked beads. Basically a workflow.

A Town level concept

Patrols are done by The Deacon and The Witness

General Notes

agent task -- trigger type -- cron

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So it doesn’t matter if Claude Code crashes, or runs out of context. As soon as another session starts up for this agent role, it will start working on that step in the molecule immediately (via GUPP, or when it gets nudged by one of the Term -- Patrol agents). If it finds out that it crashed in the middle of the last step, no biggie, it will figure out the right fix, perform it, and move on.
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system property - resilient to failures

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Concepts

Concept Description

Term -- Patrol Long strings of steps encoded as linked beads; basically a workflow

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Glossary

Term Description Kind

The Deacon Term -- Patrol agent that keeps Gas Town running in a loop role

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Roles

Role Description

The Deacon Term -- Patrol agent that keeps Gas Town running in a loop

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Term -- The Deacon

The Deacon is a Patrol Agent: it runs a Term -- Patrol (a well-defined workflow) in a loop. Gas Town has a daemon that pings the Deacon every couple minutes and says, “Do your job.” The Deacon intelligently propagates this DYFJ signal downward to the other town workers, ensuring Gas Town stays working.
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agent task -- trigger type -- cron

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Term -- The Witness

The Witness: Once you spin up enough Polecats, you realize you need an agent just to watch over them and help them get un-stuck. Gas Town's propulsion (GUPP) is effective, but still a bit flaky right now, and sometimes you will need to go hustle the polecats to get their MRs submitted, and then hustle the Refinery to deal with them. The Witness Term -- Patrol helps smooth this out so it's almost perfect for most runs.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 11 - Wisps - Ephemeral Orchestration Beads

What type of Molecules are stored as Wisps, and why? ? Molecules associated with Term -- Patrol because those workflows need to complete transactionally, but don't need to be stored in git.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 12 - Patrols

What is a Term -- Patrol implemented as? ? An ephemeral (Wisp) workflow that the agent runs in a loop.

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What happens when a Term -- Patrol worker finds no work in its steps? ? Exponential backoff — the agent waits longer and longer before starting the next patrol.

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What wakes a sleeping Term -- Patrol worker? ? Any mutating gt or bd command will wake the town.

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What is the concern with long-running Term -- Patrol steps? ? They interfere with Town Mail, the cooperative, mail-based eventing system.

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How does The Deacon avoid having long-running Term -- Patrol steps? ? He hands them off to Dogs to do.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 13 - Gas Town Plugins

How are Town-level plugins run? ? The Deacon runs them as part of its Term -- Patrol, but hands the actual work off to Dogs so they can run for essentially unlimited time.

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Why are Dogs used to run Town-level plugins instead of The Deacon running them directly? ? So plugins can run for essentially unlimited time without blocking The Deacon's Term -- Patrol loop and also messing with the Town Mail's latency

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 3 - WARNING DANGER CAUTION

Which Term -- Patrol agent helps smooth out GUPP flakiness? ? The Witness patrol — it makes propulsion almost perfect for most runs.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 4 - Gas Town 101

What kind of loop does The Deacon run? ? A Term -- Patrol — a well-defined workflow it repeats continuously.

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Which characters do Term -- Patrols? ? The Deacon and The Witness

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things that run patrols

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