Question
What is bus factor?
Quick Answer
When retiring an agent ensure its responsibilities transfer to a new agent or are consciously dropped.
Example: You have a morning planning agent — a routine that reviews your calendar, identifies top priorities, and sets your focus for the day. When a job change makes this specific routine obsolete, you don't just stop doing it. You either build a successor agent tuned to the new role's rhythms or you explicitly decide that some responsibilities (like calendar review) transfer to a weekly planning agent while others (like daily priority-setting) are consciously dropped because the new role handles prioritization differently. What you never do is let the routine die silently and discover three weeks later that you haven't set a deliberate priority since.
This concept is part of Agent Lifecycle in the How to Think curriculum.
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