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...
Jul 14, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems
The latest Model Context Protocol revision, dated 2026-07-28, formalizes something that has been emerging for months: the protocol is committed to statelessness at its core. The _meta field is now explicitly defined as the place where "clients and servers use to...
