Triggers: A Signal Language for Long-Running Agentic Systems

Article by Tony Wood | Original article on Tonywood.org

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Section 2 infographic: a trigger is a control-relevant signal, not a simulated emotion.

Section 3 diagram: the first trigger set clusters by operational job, not by emotional flavour.

Section 7 diagram: triggers feed judgement; they do not jump directly to action.

Section 8 diagram: triggers gate the path from operational noise to reviewable learning.