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Guardrails for Autonomous Agent Loops
How to bound a proactive or autonomous agent loop so it stays useful instead of becoming noise or a runaway. Covers the four guards that make an unattended loop safe: a frequency cap on how often it may act, a cooldown/dedup gate so the same condition is not re-reported, quiet hours for anything that notifies a human, and a hard budget/kill-switch that stops the loop if it exceeds a cost or iteration ceiling.
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$ hermes cron list
$ hermes cron status
$ hermes config set
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Keeping a Proactive Loop Quiet Until It Matters
Guardrails for Autonomous Agent Loops# Keeping a Proactive Loop Quiet Until It Matters Picture a proactive agent that checks a service every few minutes. On a calm day it should say nothing at all, and on a bad day it should say one useful thing. Getting both halves right is a design problem, not a matter of telling the model to be se
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