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Day Shift, Night Shift

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Use Explore mode to hover over or click a panel and read what changes when an agent keeps working after you leave, and which criteria to apply. Use Quiz mode to read a clue and click the panel it describes.

The seven regions are:

  1. Day Shift Lab — The researcher watches agents work and sees every action.
  2. Approval Requests — Requests reach you while you are present, under an approval model.
  3. Night Shift Lab — The same lab at night, with an agent working on its own cloud computer.
  4. Reach and Control — Where it runs, blast radius, and the approval model.
  5. Cost and Data — Usage metering, data exposure, and memory.
  6. Proof and Record — Claim verification and the activity audit.
  7. Morning Audit — Reading last night's log against the task the agent was given.

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Day Shift, Night Shift poster

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Why This Matters

An always-on personal agent keeps its own cloud computer, signs in to tools as you, and works while you are away. That gives it standing access and no one watching, so the same questions as for any agent must hold for months and not minutes. Chapter 19 turns them into eight criteria: where it runs, blast radius, approval model, usage metering, data exposure, memory, claim verification, and activity audit. The last is a habit as much as a feature. Each morning, compare the log with the task the agent was given.

The poster teaches criteria and names no product, price, or ranking. The product facts in Chapter 19 are a snapshot of October 2026, almost all vendor-stated or reported in the press, and the research notes found no independent benchmarks or controlled tests. Prices, tiers, and features changed within weeks of launch. Check a vendor's own pages before relying on any detail, and test the claims that matter with synthetic data and a throwaway account.

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The poster draws on Chapter 19 of this book and on the Personal Agent Software appendix that Chapter 19 cites. It uses the appendix for criteria only, not for prices or rankings.

Teachers and editors can open calibration mode to adjust zone positions after the artwork is generated. Copy only the x1, y1, x2, and y2 numbers back into data.json, because the calibration export omits showLabels and palette.