DESIGN GUIDANCE · NO DETECTOR BENCHMARK
Stall Detection: Check, Reconcile, Then Decide
A long-scroll visual companion to the article. It summarizes the article’s evidence boundary and method; it does not extend the underlying result.
At a glance
Evidence in scope
- Stage-specific checkback
- Useful-long-tail ceiling
- Ambiguous outcomes: inspect before retry
Evidence boundary: A proposed operating method, not a measured production watchdog or universal timeout recommendation.
How to use the diagram
Set a checkback and hard ceiling per stage, persist checkpoints, reconcile any ambiguous external effect, and verify the artifact.
What this visual explains: Separate process liveness from durable semantic progress. Before resending an uncertain request, determine whether the prior attempt took effect.
What it does not establish
No detector precision, saved time, or universally safe number of seconds is measured.