Watch and Act | Agent Skills Atlas

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Wait on an EXTERNAL signal the harness can't notify you about — CI, a deploy, a queue, an endpoint — polling on a cache-aware cadence (≤270s active, ≥1200s idle, never ~300s), bounded by a deadline, acting on the transition. Prefers a NATIVE wait/monitor capability when present; when polling must cross a turn it persists a durable, atomic, resumable watch state (scripts/watch-state.mjs) so the ORIGINAL bound survives a fresh process and a missing wake capability degrades to a resumable PENDING report instead of blocking. Never polls harness-tracked background work (that re-invokes you automatically). Use to bridge a run to something happening elsewhere.

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watch-and-act

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Wait on an EXTERNAL signal the harness can't notify you about — CI, a deploy, a queue, an endpoint — polling on a cache-aware cadence (≤270s active, ≥1200s idle, never ~300s), bounded by a deadline, acting on the transition. Prefers a NATIVE wait/monitor capability when present; when polling must cross a turn it persists a durable, atomic, resumable watch state (`scripts/watch-state.mjs`) so the ORIGINAL bound survives a fresh process and a missing wake capability degrades to a resumable PENDING report instead of blocking. Never polls harness-tracked background work (that re-invokes you automatically). Use to bridge a run to something happening elsewhere.

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Category: General
Reported license: Not specified
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.