Agent Of Empires Daily: Settings Authority and Prompt Safety

Version 1.18 shipped with fixes that centralize settings layer handling and tighten prompt lifecycle safety. The other pattern is interface alignment across web and terminal UI, so clicks, dialogs, and mobile flows match what is actually drawn.

Duration: PT2M25S

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: 2026-09-30T20:00:06Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M25S

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Good morning, it's Wednesday, September 30th, 2026.

The lead story is authority. The server now decides where a setting lives, and the agent control path stops accepting stale or spoofed prompt signals.

First, settings layers. Agent of Empires keeps machine-wide config with per-profile overrides on top, but the web client had to name the right layer on every read. Miss it, and you silently got the machine default. That left the system health strip as a no-op on a plain serve, plus broken approval sounds and shell…

Second, prompt lifecycle hardening. Three changes close gaps where a turn could run when it shouldn't. PR 4179 stops a rate-limit auto-resume from reinstalling an interrupted prompt after a newer manual prompt superseded it, by revalidating under submission authority and stamping queue time on the server. PR 4219…

Finally, the interface catches up to the screen. PR 4201 rebuilds new-session creation, settings, and the session menu for mobile, with detached creates and idempotency-key recovery. PR 4198 fixes terminal home preview input, so divider keys, link underlines, and clicks follow what is painted. PR 4178 adds a…

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