AI Agents Shouldn’t Have To Guess Which Services a Task Needs.

An agent can have the correct command and dependencies, then still fail because Postgres wasn’t ready when an integration test started.

Teams often handle this with a README instruction: “Start Postgres first.” But developers, CI jobs, and agents can easily miss it.

With Ota, the dependency lives in the execution contract:

requires_services:
  - postgres

Ota can start the declared service and check its readiness before running the task. This creates one consistent, reviewable execution path for humans, CI, and AI agents.

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