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Lease the Worker: A Weekend Heartbeat for Agent Side Projects

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An agent side project on a spare machine is not finished when the prompt looks clever. It is finished when the worker process holds a lease, writes a heartbeat, and dies on a hard stop. Wall-clock time is a first-class resource, the same way a step counter is a first-class resource for loops. This…

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    Lease the Worker: A Weekend Heartbeat for Agent Side Projects

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