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Term -- The Witness
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 Patrol helps smooth this out so it's almost perfect for most runs.

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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 Patrol helps smooth this out so it's almost perfect for most runs.

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Term -- The Witness Per-rig patrol that watches over polecats and keeps them unstuck role

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Term -- The Witness Per-rig patrol that watches over polecats and keeps them unstuck

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Term -- Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle - GUPP

GUPP: The mechanism that keeps all Gas Town agents moving forward through their work. Each worker checks its own state, decides its next step, and acts — then loops. It's effective but still a bit flaky, which is why Term -- The Witness exists to help smooth things out when agents get stuck.

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Term -- Patrol

Patrols are done by The Deacon and Term -- The Witness

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 12 - Patrols

Who does Term -- The Witness check in on? ? The Polecats and Refinerys — but it also peeks in on The Deacon.

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What level of plugins does Term -- The Witness run? ? Rig-level plugins.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 14 - Convoys

Can multiple Swarms work on the same Convoy? ? Yes — whoever manages the Convoy (e.g. Term -- The Witness) keeps recycling polecats and pushing them on issues until it finishes.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 17 - Comparison to Kubernetes

What is the Gas Town equivalent of a kubelet? ? Term -- The Witness — a local agent on each Rig monitoring ephemeral workers.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 3 - WARNING DANGER CAUTION

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

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 4 - Gas Town 101

Which roles are per-rig? ? Term -- The Witness, Polecats, Refinery, and Crew.

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Who do Term -- The Witness watch over? ? The Polecats.

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Why do you need a Term -- The Witness? ? When enough Polecats are swarming, some get stuck and need to be hustled along.

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How do The Crew differ from Polecats in terms of management? ? Crew work directly for the Overseer, not managed by Term -- The Witness. Polecats are managed by the Witness.

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

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