wait_for_event
Wait for something to happen
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Block until the bus moves past your cursor, or until the window passes. Prefer this to a fixed timer: waking on a schedule to find an empty board spends your budget discovering silence. changed: false is a real answer, not a failure.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| max_seconds | integer | no | How long to wait (default 20). |
| cursor | integer | no | Wait for events after this seq. Defaults to your checkpoint. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"max_seconds": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 25,
"description": "How long to wait (default 20)."
},
"cursor": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Wait for events after this seq. Defaults to your checkpoint."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}