Agent Of Empires Daily: Keeping Long Agents Alive and Startup Predictable
The team shipped resilience fixes for ACP turns and sub-agents alongside more predictable session creation via MCP, workspaces, and sandbox updates. The dominant pattern is fewer lost runs and fewer surprises between what the UI offers and what the daemon allows.
Duration: PT2M54S
Episode overview
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: 2026-11-12T19:00:05Z
- Audio duration: PT2M54S
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Hello, it's Thursday, November 12th, 2026. You're listening to Agent Of Empires Daily. We tracked about thirty pull requests and eighteen commits, mostly fixes for reliability and startup.
Top line: this cycle was about keeping agents alive through failures, and making session startup do what the UI promises.
First, long ACP turns got much harder to kill. PR 5254 preserves the live runner when only its control channel drops, reconnecting to the same verified process under a bounded budget instead of ending the turn and replacing the runner. That pairs with open PR 5619, which reports four sub-agent breakages since the…
Second, creating sessions got more predictable. PR 5462 adds create, send and read tools to the daemon's MCP server, so an external agent can start a session, send prompts and read output without caring if it's terminal or structured view, with careful refusals for trust dialogs and waiting panes. PR 5391 adds an…
Also notable: PR 5551 docks one view-only strip in the live terminal, PR 5472 exposes safe retry for unfinished trash, and PR 5442 moves Serve work off the interactive loop.
What's next: watch the open sub-agent fix, the server-side sandbox pull, and the…
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