What does it mean that agent maintenance schedule?

Agents need regular maintenance — scheduled reviews prevent gradual degradation.

Example: You built a morning routine six months ago. It worked brilliantly for the first three months — you woke at 6 AM, meditated, journaled, exercised, and started deep work by 8:30. Then your schedule shifted. You started a new project with 9 AM standups. Your gym changed its early class times. Winter arrived and waking at 6 felt brutal. You never formally reviewed the routine — you just started skipping pieces. The meditation dropped first, then the journaling. By month five, the 'morning routine' was just waking up and checking email. The agent didn't fail catastrophically. It degraded silently, one small erosion at a time, because nothing in your system scheduled a maintenance review that would have caught the drift at month three and prompted an adjustment.

Try this: List your five most important cognitive agents — habits, routines, systems, or recurring commitments. For each one, write down: (a) When you last deliberately reviewed whether it was still working as designed. (b) What maintenance cadence it should have — monthly, quarterly, or semi-annually — based on how fast it can drift. (c) A specific calendar date for its next scheduled review. If you cannot remember the last time you reviewed any of them, that is your finding: you have been running without a maintenance schedule, and whatever degradation has occurred has gone undetected.