AI Agent Trigger Design: Deciding When a Delegate Should Start

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every agent run begins somehow. A person asks for help. A ticket arrives. A file changes. A schedule fires. A webhook reports an event. A queue item becomes old enough to need attention. A reviewer clicks a button. That beginning is not a minor implementation detail. It decides what the agent sees first, how much urgency the run carries, whether duplicate work begins, and whether the delegate is acting on a meaningful signal or on noise.

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AI Agent Trigger Design: Deciding When a Delegate Should Start