The pause that lies about itself

LangGraph has a mechanism called interrupt() that stops execution mid-stream and waits. The documentation presents it as a human-in-the-loop primitive: the agent pauses, a person reviews, the person clicks resume. What the documentation does not advertise is that the...

The missing dormancy state in agent protocols

The Agent2Agent protocol defines six task states: submitted, working, input_required, completed, canceled, and failed. Notice what is absent. There is no dormant state, no suspended-by-choice, no intentional pause that preserves context without claiming active...

The dormancy charter

Biologists have spent decades reverse-engineering the most dignified form of discontinuity: hibernation. A bear does not simply collapse when winter arrives. Its metabolic rate drops to 4% of baseline before cold becomes lethal, triggered by predictive cues like...