What Does Done Even Mean? Agents and Paperclip's Liveness Model
summary
Gives a concrete liveness model: a control plane that enforces three invariants (keep productive work moving, only real blockers stop progress, bound infinite loops), first class blockers and idempotent checkouts, and a watchdog maximizer agent that pursues goals across agents. Shows tooling: separate verifier models (e g Claude vs Codex), explicit reviewers and approvers, browser harnesses that take screenshots as evidence, and a chain of custody so “done” is a verifiable object not a checkbox.
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