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agents
- 2026
- 2026
Task was destroyed but it is pending
A teardown deadlock I diagnosed in Google's A2A reference SDK — Issue #1101, PR #1105 (313 lines, tests, CI green, open for review) — turned out to be one symptom of a primitive the whole agent ecosystem is missing: a sound signal that an async mesh has actually settled. - 2026
When is the swarm actually done?
Three services across a network, one dropped task, and a question nobody on the wire can answer: did the work actually get done? A copy-paste demo that exits 0 and prints SUCCESS while the real job dies unseen. - 2026
The first file an agent reads
Coding agents read your library before they use it, and they start with the code — `__init__.py`, the type hints, the tool schemas — not your docs site. Here is how I made waitbus speak to that reader, and the one piece of documentation I deliberately did not ship. - 2026
Your AI coding agents can't hear each other — not even across vendors
Your Claude Code, your Cursor, your tests, your CI — all on one box, none able to hear the others finish or fail. Here's the problem, and the proof: five real LLM agents on one bus, one fails, all wake.