Watch Task — Armed Watchdog on a Long-Running Task

imboard-ai/git/watch-task v1.0.0 risk: medium signed Draft

Objective: Keep an agent attached to a long-running task until a terminal state — every wait is an armed watch (blocking loop, harness monitor, or verified scheduled wakeup), with stall detection and bounded recovery, so no time is lost to waits that nothing ever wakes

Use it

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ai-dossier info imboard-ai/git/watch-task

Download to the current directory

ai-dossier pull imboard-ai/git/watch-task

Verify, then run

ai-dossier run imboard-ai/git/watch-task

Needs the CLI.

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Details

Categories	development
Tags	watchdog, supervision, polling, background-agents, orchestration, autonomous, stall-detection
Authors	Yuval Dimnik
Source	raw `.ds.md`