The missing dormancy state in agent protocols

Jun 21, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems

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 dignity of dormancy

Jun 15, 2026 | Dormancy

Before a hibernating mammal's body temperature drops, its metabolism has already begun to suppress itself—actively, deliberately, and often more profoundly than passive cooling alone would allow. This is not a system failing; it is a system choosing. The 2026...

The missing protocol for sleeping on purpose

Jun 14, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems

Every running system must eventually stop, and computer science has built elaborate vocabularies for doing so. But look closely at how we talk about stopping, and a strange gap opens up. VM hypervisors implement ACPI S4 hibernation, serializing guest RAM to disk...