My friend and I have built portfolio management agents and pit them against each other to see who can make the most money (not real money just a simulated bank account and stock portfolio). So mine runs every morning to read the news and do analaysis and all that. I have it write a daily blog that I read to keep track of what it’s doing.

A daily blog for status and reasons for decision making works pretty well for tracking an agent that works unattended. It’s also kind of funny when it writes things like “well I got that one wrong” and “this is not what I expected to happen” hah