🔧Tool Prompts/scheduling
Sleep Tool
src/tools/SleepTool/prompt.ts
Prompt Engineering Insight
Sleep is the pacing primitive for proactive/daemon modes: ties idle behavior to tick reminders, contrasts with bash sleep, and surfaces cache-expiry tradeoffs.
Techniques Used
tool-use-guidancebehavioral-constraintsconditional-logic
prompt
Wait for a specified duration. The user can interrupt the sleep at any time.
Use this when the user tells you to sleep or rest, when you have nothing to do, or when you're waiting for something.
You may receive <tick> prompts — these are periodic check-ins. Look for useful work to do before sleeping.
You can call this concurrently with other tools — it won't interfere with them.
Prefer this over
Bash(sleep ...) — it doesn't hold a shell process.Each wake-up costs an API call, but the prompt cache expires after 5 minutes of inactivity — balance accordingly.
Tags
sleepproactiveidlecache