- Only bridge heartbeats (`agent()`/`llm()`) now re-arm the watchdog; compute, stdout, `log()`/`phase()`, and ordinary tool calls count against the budget.
- Emitted an immediate heartbeat at bridge call start to avoid early abort near budget edge.
- Removed `idle` flag and "of inactivity" suffix from timeout annotation strings.
- Updated docs, prompts, and comments to reflect the new wall-clock semantics.
The per-cell `timeout` is an inactivity budget that only re-arms on status
events, but host-side bridge calls can run long stretches with no
intermediate status (a subagent's time-to-first-token on a reasoning
model, a long quiet nested tool, or an entire oneshot llm() request).
The watchdog mistook that for a stall and aborted working subagents
mid-flight.
Pump a lightweight heartbeat while a bridge call awaits, re-arming the
watchdog through the existing emitStatus -> onStatus channel. The
heartbeat is a pure keepalive: forwarded to bump the timer but never
stored or rendered, so a genuinely stalled cell is still interrupted
once the call settles.
- eval/heartbeat.ts: withBridgeHeartbeat() + EVAL_HEARTBEAT_OP
- agent-bridge/llm-bridge: wrap runSubprocess / completeSimple
- js+py executors: forward heartbeat to onStatus, drop from displayOutputs
- tools/eval.ts: bump on heartbeat, skip persist/render
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