Fresh starts

Restart the agent when a condition is met, not on a calendar.

By Mackenzie Bowes · mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com · @_mackenziebowes on X

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Cursor: "we still need periodic fresh starts to combat drift and tunnel vision" (Cursor, Scaling long-running autonomous coding). A planned restart was found cost-effective at AT&T Bell Labs (Wikipedia, Software aging).