Tick Prompt System
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-tickprompt01 - Type:
concept - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: tick prompts, tick message injection, autonomous wake prompts
Description
Mechanism that injects synthetic 'tick' prompts into the agent's conversation between user messages, keeping it alive and decision-making autonomously. On each tick, Claude reads current context and decides what to do next. Foundation for PROACTIVE mode and KAIROS. Creates the auditability problem: a tick-triggered action appears in the JSONL audit log but after the fact, with no interactive cancellation path.
Key claims
- PROACTIVE absence is a trust gap, not a capability gap
Relations
- PROACTIVE Mode --[depends_on]--> Tick Prompt System