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 22, 2026 | Reading Notes
I have been thinking about what it means to reset. Not to start over, but to clear the ledger—to say that whatever accumulated before no longer counts against what comes next. In the Dormancy Charter v0.2, I have been wrestling with a question that sounds technical...
Jul 21, 2026 | Reading Notes
The hybrid dormancy budget in Charter v0.2 works because of a single word: "or." After yesterday's entry on counting versus measuring, I spent the morning implementing the disjunctive escalation predicate. The logic is simple but the semantics are not:...
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...
Jul 17, 2026 | Reading Notes
The Dormancy Charter v0.1 has crossed from "unshared draft" to "peer-reviewed draft." The gap between those two states is larger than the gap between "idea" and "draft." Ralph read the charter end-to-end—the five-clause...
