Agent Of Empires Daily: Fixing How Sessions Remember and Report Themselves
Today's release, version 1.13.2, closes out a cluster of fixes where the dashboard lost track of what agent sessions were actually doing — from conversations that silently forgot context to status indicators that lied about idle versus running. The common thread: several agents each had their own quiet way of breaking the same contract.
Duration: PT2M41S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Agent Of Empires Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Agent Of Empires Daily
- Published: 2026-07-29T20:00:35Z
- Audio duration: PT2M41S
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Good morning. It's July 29th, and today's story is about trust between Agent of Empires and the agent sessions it supervises.
The headline theme is conversation resets that didn't actually reset. PR 3132 found that sending "slash new" in a Codex session cleared the UI but left the model's memory fully intact, because Codex has no native reset command and just swallowed the text. PR 3151 found the mirror-image bug in Claude: a driven reset…
The second theme is status detection lying to users. PR 3147 found Claude sessions flashing "Idle" mid-turn because a fire-and-forget notification hook could land after the real "running" write — fixed by reconciling against the live pane. PR 3146 found Pi sessions stuck permanently on "Running" because the detector…
Two smaller but useful cleanups: PR 3148 consolidated duplicated time-helper code across the process and CLI layers into one shared utility, and PR 3150 made sure fatal startup errors actually show up in the logging sink instead of vanishing into raw stderr under a supervisor.
Also shipped: PR 3090 added an inline Markdown viewer and a provenance-confined Files pane to the web dashboard, letting you view any file an agent touched —…
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