# unattended research loop and ticks

> Living preprint · as of 2026-10-25 · map node G-loop (concept) · interim record, not a final result.

**unattended research loop and ticks**

Plain: For four days an AI coordinator woke up on a timer, advanced one experiment, logged it and scheduled its next wake-up, without a human.

Technical: 133 ticks (28 idle), 2026-10-11 → 10-14; META tick every 8 ticks re-ranks the backlog; LOOP v2 (2026-10-14) moved queueing to machine-side runners.

Read chapter 8, The agent lab: https://r4topunk.github.io/boar-research/research/agent-lab.md

## Facts cited {#facts}

Resolve every [F-…] marker in https://r4topunk.github.io/boar-research/data/facts.json. Each line gives the claim, the number with its metric family, set and status, judge, n, seeds, CI, date and caveat.

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- [F-031] Four days of an unattended agent research loop produced one dev-only lever. 133 ticks (28 idle), 2026-10-11 12:10 → 10-14 19:09; ≈ 10.5k judge calls (Opus 4,851 + Haiku 5,660) plus 1,491 Haiku writer/generation calls; Mac mini 44.4 h + MacBook 18.1 h of generation; ≈ 31 h avoidable · set UNKNOWN (status UNKNOWN) · judge UNKNOWN · n UNKNOWN · seeds UNKNOWN · CI not computed · date 2026-10-14

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