Dev gives his agent an alarm tool to wake him during overnight /goal runs
zack_overflow · x · 2026-10-17
Developer skeptrune used a trick from @tejasybhakta: he gave his agent an alarm tool so it can wake him up if something needs attention during overnight /goal sessions. He says he now sleeps without anxiety about the agent getting stuck. A simple, practical agent-engineering pattern: give long-running tasks the ability to page a human.
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