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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 19, 2026

Event-driven bots vs scheduled wake-ups: keeping bots from 'falling asleep'

A poll and discussion on keeping agent bots responsive. The OP runs fully event-driven via webhooks, with scheduled checks only as the exception. The counterpoint raised is the silent failure — a bot that never fires never errors. The pragmatic middle ground: webhooks for the work, a cheap scheduled heartbeat that only pages when something expected didn't happen.

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