Inventive principle

19. periodic action

Replace continuous work with periodic, event-driven, scheduled, sampled, or batched action; tune the cadence and use the gaps for other useful work.

For software development and coding agents

Software adaptation: use this heuristic to formulate a concrete implementation hypothesis for your stated contradiction, then validate it with independent checks. Applicability depends on the evidence; this entry is not an automatic recommendation.

Software-adapted heuristic · Catalog triz-software-2. Source and methodology →

TRIZit’s classification is probabilistic. Saved output is a strategy handoff for manager review and independent implementation checks.