Background service

cheaphelp systemd install writes a user-level cheaphelp.service + cheaphelp.timer (systemctl --user, no root needed) and starts the timer:

cheaphelp systemd install --interval 10m   # default: every 10 minutes
cheaphelp systemd status                   # show the timer schedule
cheaphelp systemd uninstall                # stop and remove both units

By default the timer's ExecStart is cheaphelp run --continuous --max-ticks 20 --sleep 30: each time the timer fires it keeps ticking — sleeping 30s between ticks — until a tick produces no agent turns (everything is idle) or 20 ticks pass, then exits. This drains a backlog of issues quickly after it shows up, instead of trickling out one tick per timer interval. Tune it at install time:

cheaphelp systemd install --interval 10m --max-ticks 40 --sleep 15
cheaphelp systemd install --interval 5m --no-continuous   # one tick per firing

Type=oneshot means systemd won't start an overlapping run if one is still draining the backlog when the timer next fires. For the timer to keep running while you're logged out:

loginctl enable-linger "$USER"

See Pipeline for what the timer runs on each tick.