Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖What it means
A droid seen from the scheduling side: work that happens repeatedly rather than once. Carolverse has exactly three shapes — SCHEDULED (wakes on a clock), TRIGGERED (wakes on an event) and ONGOING (never stops). Whichever shape it takes, a process must emit a run record every time it fires, or the monitor cannot tell the difference between healthy silence and death.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Daemon
A daemon is one of the three shapes a process can take — the ongoing one.
Not: Run
The process is the standing arrangement; a run is one firing of it.
Not: Step execution
A process repeats on its own schedule; a step execution happens once, inside an initiative's plan.
🗣️Also called
scheduled jobbackground jobrecurring work