spaced repetition prompts - blog section 6 - Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle
^ spaced repetition prompts - blog section 6 - Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle
Blog Post -- Section 6 - Gastown Universal Propulsion Principle
The agent. An agent is the persistent identity (the "pet"); a session is the ephemeral Claude Code process thrown at work (the "cattle"). Sessions come and go, but the agent endures.
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pets vs cattle
The agent. Its identity, state, and work live in Beads. The session is disposable cattle — just spin up another one.
The agent's identity, state, and work live in Beads, which is git-backed.
A worker's identity type — like a domain table describing the role, with priming information.
Pinned Beads float like yellow-sticky notes — they never get closed and don't show up in bd ready.
On the worker's Hook — a special Pinned Bead unique to that agent.
gt sling — you sling work to workers and it goes on their hook. You can start immediately, defer, or make them restart first.The worker gracefully cleans up and restarts its session. If it's hooked, GUPP keeps it working automatically.
Claude Code is too polite — it sometimes ignores the hook and sits waiting for user input instead of running automatically.
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agent problem - Claude Code is polite and waits for user input
Next section: section 7 - The GUPP Nudge
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