[ AI ][ INFRASTRUCTURE ][ NOUN ]
A small periodic signal an agent sends to confirm it's still alive and responsive, distinct from an agent runtime manager by being the lightweight check-in itself rather than the component acting on it.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The heartbeat stopped an hour before anyone noticed the agent had actually crashed."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard distributed-systems 'heartbeat' terminology applied directly to AI agents once they needed the same liveness checks as any long-running process.
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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
中文 zh-CNAgent心跳EQUIVALENTliterally 'agent heartbeat' - Agent kept as borrowed English word, 心跳 = native 'heartbeat'
日本語 ja-JPエージェントハートビートBORROWEDdirect katakana transliteration of 'agent heartbeat', used as-is in Japanese AI/infra contexts
한국어 ko-KR에이전트 하트비트BORROWEDdirect transliteration of 'agent heartbeat', used as-is in Korean AI/infra contexts
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