H-13Event-driven Agent

The agent sleeps until an external event wakes it; its first decision is whether the event matters at all.

Key insight

Inverting control — the world calls the agent — is what makes always-on agents affordable and non-annoying.

Failure mode

Event storms: without dedupe and rate limits, a burst of correlated events becomes a burst of correlated, conflicting agent actions.

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