Claude 91b11019db Ride out Venice overloads: retry 429, 5xx and dropped connections with backoff
One overloaded reply in the middle of a worker run used to throw away the
whole build (the MDecks relaunch hit exactly that). Seats and the worker
now retry up to three times (15s, 60s, 135s) before giving up; a 4xx like
a bad key still fails at once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UpT7eWzeLhRwuYmsSQnbRb
2026-10-11 15:58:39 -07:00

time

A GitHub-native agent factory. GitHub is the ledger, GitHub-hosted runners are the clock (Time), the worker is a Venice seat with hands or a Cursor cloud agent, and chat is where you plan.

  • Cards: an issue with a DONE: line, labelled ready.
  • Heartbeat (heartbeat.yml, hourly and whenever a card is labelled ready): moves cards forward. In dry-run (default) it only says what it would do; with TIME_MODE=live it dispatches each card to the worker (TIME_WORKER: a Venice seat such as venice:kimi, which edits the repo and opens the PR itself, or a Cursor cloud agent), which opens a PR that closes the card. An optional reviewer (TIME_REVIEW) checks the PR. At most TIME_DAILY_CAP launches a day.
  • Mentions (mention.yml): @kimi, @grok 4.7, @qwen max high in any issue, PR or comment gets that seat's reply (Venice).
  • Hands-off (TIME_AUTOMERGE=on): label an issue spec and Time splits it into cards that run one at a time. A card's PR merges itself once the reviewer approves and checks are green, then the next card starts. Objections, red checks and protected paths (workflows, deploy, secrets) go to a human.
  • Venture loop (venture.yml, every 20 min once TIME_VENTURE=on): one venture card a day. It scouts the repos that gained the most stars this week; seats pitch; the board votes (Borda, quorum of two); every board seat writes a launch plan (positioning, first users, pricing, channels, 7-day success and kill lines) and one seat synthesizes them into LAUNCH.md; the worker builds a launch page around a working product on gh-pages in its own design direction; deterministic checks and headless Chrome (phone and desktop) gate it, with two fix rounds before an andon; GitHub Pages ships it at /ventures/<slug>/. Signups go through an issue form (.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/early-access.yml), each one thanked on its issue; after 7 days the count of distinct people decides: build v2, kill, or watch a week more. The studio index lives at /ventures/. Launch posts are drafts for a human; nothing is posted outside the repo.
  • Doctor (doctor.yml, manual): runs the tests and checks label, settings and keys.
  • Update (update.yml, weekly or manual): opens a PR with the latest engine from teahubxyz/time, so every project stays on one Time instead of drifting copies.

Setup

Open this repo in Claude Code or Cursor and say "set up Time". The agent follows .claude/skills/time/SKILL.md. You'll be asked to install Cursor's GitHub app on the repo and to paste your Cursor API key into gh secret set CURSOR_API_KEY.

Status

For changes and release history, see CHANGELOG.md.

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Time: the clock for the factory. Ported from GitHub (PoC) 2026-10-14.
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