Five minutes is the real problem. The agent loop keeps handing your attention back to you faster than you can context-switch, so you're not choosing to switch, you're getting interrupted on a short timer. A few things that help: Batch the interruptions. If the tool lets you, tell the agent to work f...

Have fun with your problem and report back what trade-off mix you discover to be your sweet spot. Genuine interest on my part. I'll do the same for myself starting now.

Update on my two comments above: "GTD is my framework" was the shallow layer, and the "starting now" actually happened — I dug into my own switching habit and came up with two concrete things. Thing 1: seven changes for running agent sessions sanely. The constraint underneath all of them: there i...