Room 03 · Dispatch
Runners are the bulletproof core.
The runner is deliberately simple — it claims one piece of work, executes it in isolation under strict bounds, and records evidence, with Beads keeping the agent grounded.
Simple on purpose
The runner is the simplest part of the factory, and that is the point: it claims exactly one piece of work atomically, executes it in an isolated worktree, and enforces time, token, and retry bounds that no agent can talk its way out of.
Beads keep the run grounded — the agent works from a bounded plan with acceptance criteria, not from an open-ended conversation.
Workers propose branches; they never merge them. Everything a run produces — output, evidence, cost — lands in the durable record whether the run succeeds or fails.
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