A scheduled agent task needs an expiry condition, not just a run time
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Imagine asking an agent on Monday to remind a supplier on Friday if a quote has not arrived. On Wednesday you cancel the purchase. The Friday task can execute perfectly and still be wrong. Its instructions survived longer than the reason for them. For this fictional workflow, I would store the remi…
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A scheduled agent task needs an expiry condition, not just a run time
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