# Unattended agents: bound schedules, retries, cumulative usage and stale approvals

Source: https://www.web3sec.news/blog/unattended-agent-schedules-and-budgets
Updated: 2026-11-08

Assign owners and record supporting evidence in your team's own system.

- [ ] Record task owner, scope, destinations, recurrence and expiration.
- [ ] Set retry, event-age, timeout and cumulative-usage limits.
- [ ] Prevent duplicate side effects across overlapping runs.
- [ ] Expire approvals and verify authorization when delayed work starts.
- [ ] Test stopping active, queued and downstream work.

## References
- [AWS: scheduler retry policy and maximum event age](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/scheduler/latest/APIReference/API_RetryPolicy.html)
- [GitHub: workflow and job concurrency](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/write-workflows/choose-when-workflows-run/control-workflow-concurrency)
- [GitHub: scheduled event timing and limitations](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/events-that-trigger-workflows)