Scheduled agent tasks need expiry conditions, not just run times
OriginalHospital · reddit · 2026-09-12
A design argument: scheduled agent tasks need expiry conditions. Example: ask an agent Monday to remind a supplier Friday if a quote hasn't arrived; cancel the purchase Wednesday—Friday's task can execute perfectly and still be wrong, because instructions outlive their reason. Proposal: tie the reminder to the purchase request and check at execution that the request is active, the quote is still missing, and permission to contact still applies; otherwise record why it skipped. The calendar says when an agent may act; the current goal says whether it should act at all.
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