The five steps
- What can I do next 8 min
- When a task fails 9 min
- Try it again 9 min
- Fixing the root cause 11 min
- Twenty thousand tasks 11 min
The to-do list an AI agent works through, where every task waits on others: track what is ready, let one failure block everything downstream, retry within a budget, recover when the root cause is fixed, and stay fast at twenty thousand tasks.