A `schedules` table (project, cron, prompt or workflow) and a timer that creates the task the way the lead's `create_task` does, managed with lead tools and no UI, like workflows. Example: every Monday, run `go vet ./...` and `gofmt -l` and check `docs/operations.md` against the code. Claude Code Routines, Codex Automations, Copilot cloud automations, Devin, Factory and Conductor all schedule agents.
An agent working unattended (no human to ask) that hits a question with two plausible answers forks at it: the task carries on with one answer and a fork, started the same way as answering again, carries on with the other, so the human later compares both results instead of the agent guessing.
A native client for the phone over the same API, sharing the macOS client's SwiftUI code where it can. Every surveyed tool has one (Claude, Codex, Cursor and Conductor apps, GitHub Mobile, Superset for iPhone); it needs its own layout, since two half-width panes don't fit a phone.