Agent Of Empires Daily: Sessions Survive Setup Failures, Subagents Stay Alive
The team shipped a cross-stack escape hatch for broken setup hooks and a major fix for ACP subagents being killed early and misreported. Live terminal handoffs, first-run setup, and daemon performance also got attention.
Duration: PT2M30S
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: 2026-11-13T19:00:26Z
- Audio duration: PT2M30S
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Hello, it's Friday, November 13th, 2026, and this is Agent Of Empires Daily.
The throughline today is survival: sessions that survive a broken setup script, and subagents that survive their parent turn.
First, creating without setup. Until now, a failing on-create hook rolled back the whole session creation, costing the session and its worktree. PR 5605 adds a server option to create a session with no setup hook, tagging it as created without setup. PR 5649 is the web half, offering Create Without Setup next to Try…
Second, subagents. PR 5619 fixes four breakages since the subagent request landed. The big one: the parent turn could be cancelled while child agents were still working, because the watchdog never saw child traffic and the adapter hides the parent call. That fix extends the timeout while a child is active and bounds…
Third, smoother operations. The live terminal now names who holds control, web or T U I, and stays on the fast stream after a takeover in PR 5568, while the T U I shows a footer line instead of a blocking dialog in PR 5644. New web users get a guided setup wizard in PR 5399 that derives progress from real…
What's next: open work would report a removed sandbox…
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