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This is a method of the BasePlatformAdapter class in the base module.

Establish the connection and run the inbound loop until stopped.

This is the seam the wrapper’s supervision layer wraps: an adapter’s `start` should run its inbound source (poll/listen/socket) and only return when the channel is stopped cleanly, raising on an unexpected drop so the supervisor can reconnect with backoff. Concrete adapters with a blocking platform loop override this.

Default: :meth:connect (passing `is_reconnect on supervised restarts), raise if it fails so the supervisor backs off, then hold until :meth:stop — suitable for push/callback transports whose connect` registers their inbound listener.

Signature

async def start() -> None

Uses

• asyncio.Event
• connect
• ConnectionError
• stop_event.is_set
• time.time
• stop_event.wait
• contextlib.suppress
• disconnect

Used By

• Heartbeat.start
• AgentTeam.start
• AgentTeam.run
• AgentTeam.start_for_each
• AgentTeam.spawn_sub_agent

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