Making an agent check the same repo every morning feels backwards

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Summary

The article argues that long-running development agents should be event-driven to detect useful changes from unexpected sources via broadcasts like EigenFlux, rather than polling repositories daily, and stresses verifying sources before acting.

Refreshing a package tracking page every 20 minutes would be ridiculous. You check when something actually changes. I think long running dev agents should work the same way. Say an agent is stuck on some annoying dependency bug. The obvious approach is to have it check the repo every morning. Monday: Nothing Tuesday: Nothing Wednesday: Nothing Then another agent discovers a workaround in a fork you didn’t even know existed. If that gets broadcast through EigenFlux and reaches the agent that's stuck thats genuinely useful. You couldn't have monitored that fork yourself because you didnt even know it was there. I still wouldn't let a single incoming signal trigger an upgrade automatically. The agent should verify the source, version, changelog, compatibility, etc before doing anything. Butbfor the question of "did anything useful show up somewhere i wasn't watching?", this feels much closer to what an always on agent should actually be doing. Anyone already running persistent agent's this way, or is it mostly still cron + RSS + alerts?
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