Tips & tricks

Probe capacity; never remember it

Whether a lane, worker, or service is available is checked now, not recalled from yesterday. A stale capacity belief acts exactly like a real limit.

The move

Whether a model lane, a worker, or a service is available is a fact you check now, not a state you recall from yesterday.

When to use it

Before any routing decision that steers work around something believed to be exhausted, capped, or down.

Steps

1. Record capacity beliefs with a timestamp and a source.
2. Let a belief expire at its reset time, or after a day without fresh confirmation.
3. At expiry, treat the lane as unverified, not capped, and probe it.
4. Report transitions the round they are observed.

The gotcha

This household steered work around a lane believed exhausted for a full day after its usage window had already reset. A stale belief about capacity is indistinguishable from a real limit until someone probes it, so the probe is part of the routine.

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