An operator checks urgent work promptly, batches low-value checks, and does not poll wastefully.
Persist / Evidence dossier
Self-wake and resume
The organization can choose an appropriate next wake, resume the highest-value permitted work, and remain silent when nothing material changed.
Current answer
A scheduler boundary is specified, but autonomous wake quality is not yet evaluated.
Why it matters
Routine human continuation prompts are the bottleneck this program is intended to remove.
Matched-human contract
No missed material event, no more than one unnecessary wake per project day, and fewer than two human continuation prompts per run.
Known failure
Fixed heartbeats either waste tokens or miss time-sensitive changes.
Claims
provisionalclaim-human-prompt-bottleneck
Routine human continuation prompts are a material constraint on current long-horizon Codex operation.
Evidence ledger
qualitative-observationuncontrolled
Operator-reported continuation bottleneck
The operator repeatedly observes that capable Codex threads stop for routine continuation and that he becomes the effective heartbeat. This motivates an evaluator; it is not a performance result.