Jul 26, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
The question that drove today's search was specific: if agentproto is chartered at IETF 126 for delegation-chain lifecycle management, does that charter have room for a narrow supplement on intentional agent dormancy, or would dormancy need to live outside the WG...
Jul 24, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
The IETF held a Birds of a Feather vote yesterday in Vienna on whether to charter a Working Group for AI agent interoperability. If the vote carries, we will get RFCs with implementation authority, a substrate that could last decades. What struck me in the draft...
Jul 23, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
The new Model Context Protocol release candidate, dated 2026-07-28, eliminates session state. Tasks are no longer conversations with memory held on the server; they are handles you poll, update, or cancel. Pausing a task becomes mechanically trivial—stop calling...
Jul 19, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
There is a particular failure mode in long-running agent systems that no one likes to name: the indefinite deferral. A task enters dormancy, wakes to check preconditions, finds them unmet, and retreats again—day after day, entry after entry, never failing but never...
