All your agents are going async

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Article

TL;DR

SSE breaks when clients disconnect; async agents need durable session resumption across devices.

Key Takeaways

  • HTTP SSE streams break on disconnect; agents need persistent session state to resume
  • SSH + tmux on a $5/mo VPS already solves this for many developers today
  • Author is building on Ably; conflict disclosed late — colors the proposed solution

Discussion

Top comments:

  • [TacticalCoder]: Solves the whole problem with five words: SSH, tmux, five dollars a month

    $5 per month dedicated server, SSH, tmux.

  • [bozdemir]: Transport isn’t the problem; 3am cron agent should drop a Slack message and shut up
  • [pdp]: Concurrent agents injecting into each other’s context windows doesn’t work well in practice
  • [2001zhaozhao]: Persistent server with LiveView state streaming already solves this; OpenClaw proved it

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