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Term -- Boot the Dog

^ Term -- Boot the Dog

Boot the Dog: There is a special Dog named Boot who is awakened every 5 minutes by the daemon

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

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.

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).

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).

Since the task is small, the Dog gets to use its full brains, since it runs in context window zone -- the smart zone

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^ Term -- Boot the Dog

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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
...
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.
......
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).
......
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).
......
Since the task is small, the Dog gets to use its full brains, since it runs in context window zone -- the smart zone

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Gas Town

Just think of the spaced repetition system as Term -- Boot the Dog... who only bugs The Deacon at the optimal time so that he can otherwise be maximally effective. You'll soon understand what that means!

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Term -- Boot the Dog Cron dog that wakes every 5 min to check on the Deacon role

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Term -- Boot the Dog Cron dog that wakes every 5 min to check on the Deacon

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management needs to be kept to task

managers needs to maintain focus on ensuring things get done, but also they need to be pinged. Like Term -- Boot the Dog does.

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spaced repetition prompts - blog section 4 - Gas Town 101

What does Term -- Boot the Dog decide every 5 minutes? ? Whether The Deacon needs a heartbeat, a nudge, a restart, or to be left alone.

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Why does Term -- Boot the Dog exist instead of the daemon pinging The Deacon directly? ? The daemon kept interrupting The Deacon with heartbeats and pep talks — Term -- Boot the Dog absorbs that so the Deacon can focus.

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