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New Plugin Replaces Agent Sleep Loops with Smart Wait Tool
An agent repeatedly wrote fragile sleep loops to check deployment readiness, often misreading stale responses. Developer Antonio Zhu created opencode-waitfor, a plugin that adds a wait_for tool supporting HTTP, TCP, and shell checks with expected conditions. The tool returns diagnostic data on timeout, eliminating blind retries.
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This solves a real agent reliability issue, but its impact depends on adoption beyond the author's own workflow.
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