Abstract
This publication discloses, in enabling detail, a dual-path protocol for delivering a unit of work into an autonomous agent's cognitive loop and for verifying, out of band, that the work does not silently stall. A fast path enqueues a work item in-process onto a resident attention queue by resolving the engine from a shared carrier (a config bridge object, else a last-resort global handle) and calling a plain function; this path is deliberately lossy — it never retries, never demands an acknowledgement, and fails soft to false when the engine is not resident. Correctness is not entrusted to the fast path. It is carried instead by a durable work-chain hub: exactly one chain per ask, idempotent on a natural key. A watchdog derives liveness from semantic progress artifacts — it joins the newest progress note per task — and escalates a stale chain exactly once per staleness-window crossing, using a monotonic lastescalatedat timestamp compared against a moving cutoff (lastescalatedat = cutoff) rather than a boolean "escalated" flag, so that a subsequent crossing re-escalates once. Work is executed in the loop's act phase through an extensible work-handler registry, and the reference email handler is anti-fabrication by contract: it may post only an attestable "picked up" note and is structurally incapable of posting "done", so a hallucinated completion cannot silence the watchdog. The document establishes dated public prior art over the composed delivery-and-verification protocol.
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Recommended Citation
Assuncao, gustavo matthew, "Dual-Path Work Delivery into an Agent Cognitive Loop", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10929