Agents run tools in a loop.

Yes, you can give the Big Brain Thing a vague task and expect results, some times it'll do it right

But if you want repeatability, give it tools to determine what is a "disruption".

I have this exact system running on a WhateverClaw with a few simple tools: weather, train time tables (I commute via train) and a read-only version of my "will I be at the office or remote today" -calendar via a tool. Oh and a tool to notify me via Telegram.

It gets this information using the given tools and determines if it's worth notifying me.

TBH this doesn't need a "claw", I could just run the tools in cron, construct a prompt with that data and run any LLM on it.

This is because for some reason all agentic systems think that slapping cron on it is enough, but that completely ignores decades of knowledge about prospective memory. Take a look at https://theredbeard.io/blog/the-missing-memory-type/ for a write-up on exactly that.

“A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”

You need to write a clearer prompt.

Why not set your own evals and something like pi-mono for that? https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/

You'll define exactly what good looks like.

Me too. It doesn't have ability to alert only on true positive. I has to also alert on true negative. So dumb