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diff --git a/skills/pi-subagent/SKILL.md b/skills/pi-subagent/SKILL.md index 7b17e50..06862c0 100644 --- a/skills/pi-subagent/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/pi-subagent/SKILL.md @@ -153,9 +153,32 @@ Expect minutes to tens of minutes per run. Check progress with: `status.sh` exits 3 while anything is still running, and also prints free disk space — the event streams are big while runs are in flight. -**Don't sit on the wait loop.** Launching early is only worth it if you use the -time: do your own investigation of the same question, build whatever harness -you'll need to check the answers, establish baselines. You need your own +**Get woken instead of waiting.** In an interactive pi, the `alarm` tool can +fire when processes exit. Launch, set one alarm on all the runs' PIDs, and end +your turn: when the last run exits, the alarm starts a new turn, or arrives +after the tool call in progress if you're busy by then. For the PIDs, print +`$!` after each launch in the same bash call, or read `"$P"/out/*.running`, +which holds each run's PID while it's in flight. + +``` +alarm action=set when_exits=[<pids>] in_minutes=<the --timeout, in minutes, + 5> + note="pi-subagent runs <names> in <$P> have ended. Run <$SK>/status.sh <$P>, + handle failures (§6), verify (§7), report with the cost table (§8)." +``` + +- Write the note with absolute paths. By the time it fires, this context may + have been compacted away. +- One alarm per PID wakes you as each run ends instead. That's worth it for a + long split whose parts you can check as they come; for a fan-out, one + alarm for all is the point. +- The alarm sees no exit status. `status.sh` has it. +- The deadline is a backstop, in case a run hangs past its own timeout. +- Without the `alarm` tool (print or RPC mode), monitor with `status.sh`. + +**Don't sit on the wait loop.** With an alarm set, there's nothing to wait +for. Otherwise, launching early is only worth it if you use the time: do your +own investigation of the same question, build whatever harness you'll need to +check the answers, establish baselines. You need your own evidence in §7 regardless. When you do block, give the shell call a timeout and loop, rather than one unbounded wait. |