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long-horizon-waiting-strategies from valtterimelkko/agent-workflow-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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Surviving long waits and supervising dispatched child agents without over-watching: go idle safely with verified recovery, and build liveness-correct stuck-detectors — watch-wake, model-free wake deadlines, background-shell completion and independent process backstops, the backstop ladder, the hand-back protocol, the liveness discriminator. Use whenever waiting more than a few minutes (child sessions, Internal API orchestration, builds, migrations, batch jobs, measurement windows, 'check back…
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What the file says
# Long-horizon waiting strategies How to wait for hours without burning context, holding a turn open, or — the failure that actually bites — **never waking up again**. ## When to use Also: supervision design, child authority, heartbeats and stuck-detectors, the child question protocol, dead-man switches and watchdogs, an agent idle for hours, micromanaging children, and measurement windows. ## What to read **Tier 1 — the only must-read for an Internal API parent:** [`../pi-web-ui-internal-api-orchestration/references/parent-card.md`](../pi-web-ui-internal-api-orchestration/references/parent-card.md) (rules, per-harness wait sequences, canonical watch blocks, on-wake triage). Read it before you end any turn on a wait, and again after every compaction. Everything below is reference, read when the card points here or the situation matches: | Reference | Open it when… | |---|---| | *Harness applicability*, *The pre-idle checklist*, *Choose the backstop*, *The backstop ladder* (this file) | you wait on anything other than an Internal API child, or the card's backstop does not fit | …
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How to install
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Source
valtterimelkko/agent-workflow-skills · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
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