What does it mean that event-based triggers?

Linking an agent to a specific event like arriving at work or opening your laptop.

Example: You want to review your daily priorities before getting pulled into reactive work. You have tried setting a reminder for 9:00 a.m., but some days you arrive at 8:45 and some days at 9:15 — the alarm fires at the wrong moment either way. So you switch to an event-based trigger: 'When I sit down at my desk and open my laptop, I review my three priorities before opening email.' The trigger is no longer a time. It is an event — the physical act of opening your laptop. It fires at the right moment regardless of what time you arrive, because the event itself is the signal. Within a week, the laptop lid opening and the priority review become a single behavioral unit. You stop needing to remember. The event remembers for you.

Try this: Map your next workday as a sequence of transition events — not times, but observable moments where one activity ends and another begins. Waking up. Finishing breakfast. Arriving at your workspace. Opening your first tool. Finishing a meeting. Returning from lunch. Closing your last application. Arriving home. For each transition, write it down as a concrete, observable event: 'When I [specific event].' Now select two transitions that currently have no intentional behavior attached to them. Design an event-based agent for each, using the format: 'When [event], I will [specific action].' Keep the action small enough to complete in under two minutes. Run both agents for five consecutive workdays and note which one fires more reliably.