The Daemon in the Middle

My laptop runs a Python process that does almost nothing. Every 60 seconds it asks Jira for the list of open tickets, looks at each one, and decides whether anything needs to happen. Most of the time, nothing does. The whole tick takes under a second. Then it sleeps. I recently wrote about intent-driven delivery. A customer signal turns into a contract on a Jira ticket. An agent reads the contract, does the work, posts evidence. A human approves the result. Six steps, three of them mechanical. The middle wa