Ep 7 · Trust, then verify

What you'll learn

• The desktop relay only accepts work if its liaison was seen in the last ninety seconds. Unclaimed requests expire after ten minutes.
• Once claimed, a request is never put back in the queue, because it might already have gone out.
• “Delivery reported” is a claim. It only becomes verified when the reply matches fresh text in the target's own transcript.
• After a child agent swallowed another session's messages, tool-style runs carry a child guard: no inbox, no acknowledging, no brain calls.