Agent Of Empires Daily: Runner Takes the Wheel on ACP
The biggest change today hands ACP protocol control from the daemon to the runner, shipped alongside a cluster of fixes to session naming, container detection, and rate-limit accuracy, all rolled into today's v1.13.1 release.
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- Show: Agent Of Empires Daily
- Published: 2026-07-22T20:00:28Z
- Audio duration: PT2M30S
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Good morning. It's July 22nd, and today's codebase activity centers on one architectural shift with a wide blast radius, plus a cleanup wave of user-facing fixes.
The headline is PR 3056: the runner now owns the ACP handshake and turn over a new version-2 control channel. Previously the daemon ran initialize and session calls directly over a byte relay. Now the runner shim issues those calls once, caches the results, and answers the daemon through typed frames. This matters…
A second theme: small papercuts in day-to-day UX got real fixes this cycle. PR 3055 stops smart-rename from titling sessions after a CLI's startup banner instead of the actual task — a Claude Code welcome box was literally getting summarized as the session name. PR 3060 fixes a TUI bug where a paste meant for a…
Rounding out the pattern: PR 2965 rejects a deprecated, spoofed Codex adapter that was silently degrading model metadata, and PR 3061 is in progress fixing rate-limit reset times that were off by up to an hour due to a missing timestamp field.
All of this — plus the auto-open panel toggles in PR 3057 — shipped in today's v1.13.1 release, PR 3063, a large staging merge covering roughly a hundred linked…
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