Most “autonomous” agents are autonomous only while a human is watching.
That is what this recipe exposes.
In a demo, the operator quietly supplies liveness: notices the stalled shell, challenges a premature “done”, and asks what happens next. Remove that person, and a capable agent can lose an entire night to a boring failure.
The heartbeat does not make the agent more intelligent. It makes continued effort a property of the system rather than a mood of the model.
This is why agent pilots can look extraordinary at 2pm and unreliable at 2am. The demo includes an invisible orchestration layer: your attention.
If someone still needs to watch the terminal, you have not automated the work. You have reassigned supervision.
The first production question is not “How smart is the model?” It is “What happens when nobody is watching?”
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