All your agents are going async

Article

TL;DR

Async agents that outlive HTTP sessions need durable transport — the author pitches session-based pub/sub.

Key Takeaways

• HTTP SSE + Last-Event-ID may already solve durable transport without new infrastructure
• Real problem isn’t transport but non-portable agent session state across tools (JSONL vs SQLite)
• Article buries a disclosure that the solution pitched is the author’s own commercial product (Ably)

Discussion

Top comments:

• [bozdemir]: Half this post is a disguised pitch for Ably — disclosure buried two paragraphs from end
• [TacticalCoder]: Solved problem: $5/month server, SSH, tmux — no new protocol needed
• [tuo-lei]: Agent session state is non-portable across tools — that’s the real blocker, not transport
• [pdp]: Two concurrent agents injecting into each other’s context doesn’t work well in practice

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