A single transient failure from a background run used to silence the whole
company — founder included — for the full ten-minute cooldown. The
interactive lane now claims one probe per park window: the founder's
message tries the provider immediately, a success lifts the cooldown for
everyone (a served request is proof of health), and a failed probe re-arms
the park with the probe spent, so a real outage is never hammered.
Autonomous work still waits cooldowns out unconditionally.
Claim priority alone still left the founder waiting behind whatever long
autonomous run held the single execution slot. The worker now runs two
slots: autonomous grinds the queue one run at a time as before, while
the interactive slot claims only human-triggered wakes and executes them
concurrently — a founder message answers in seconds regardless of what
the company is building in the background. Housekeeping (wake expiry,
goal reviews, heartbeat enqueue) now runs every tick instead of pausing
during long runs. Integration test pins the concurrency: the CEO's reply
lands while a gated autonomous run is still in flight.
ZacharyZhang-NY