Ascend Skills Library
Core

Overnight run.

The autonomy contract for unattended runs — decide anything reversible, park the rest, never idle-wait.

v2.0.2·updated 18 Sep 2026·stable
Use the Ascend Skills: Overnight run

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Skill details

What it does

An unattended run that works one verified step at a time toward checkable done-criteria, decides anything reversible on its own, parks what is irreversible, and reports without being asked.

Who uses it

operatorin Core

What you need

You bring:

  • the goal
  • a way to run a loop or schedule wakeups
  • the status-pulse skill for reporting

How it works5

The steps, in order. The method itself is served whole through the connector, current on every use.

  1. 1

    Restate the goal as checkable done-criteria

  2. 2

    Write the state file

  3. 3

    Arm the loop and run the first pass now

  4. 4

    One step per iteration, verified with evidence

  5. 5

    Stop when every criterion passes

What it doesn't do

  • Irreversible actions such as sends, deletes or payments
  • Goals with no checkable end state

When your AI reaches for it

Codified autonomy contract for unattended runs. Use when the operator says "/overnight-run <goal>", "run this overnight", "don't make me the bottleneck", "keep going until done", "do one thing at a time until the goal is achieved", "DO NOT STOP", or asks for a /loop with autonomous decision-making while they are away. Replaces re-typing the loop-cadence + reversibility + no-bottleneck contract every session.

Latest change

v2.0.218 Sep 2026
Declares that it writes no work product of its own (`writes: []`): the status file is `status-pulse`'s, which now lands in the standard output tree. No change to the loop.

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