if you are looking for a customizable agent harness that provides everything except a tui (cli, acp, embeddable python package) i built and use this for a handful of projects where i needed a vendor-agnostic replacement for claude agent sdk: https://github.com/zackham/aloop
The most durable way to reason about agents is to just think about humans. We have thousands of years of prior art on coordinating instantiations of stochastic intelligence. Context, tools, goals, validation, specialization, distribution of labor, coordination... If jobs are bundles of tasks and areas of accountability, maybe it's more effective right now to unbundle and reorganize some of these things. If constraints underperform autonomy, maybe you have to adjust where you operate on that spectrum, and account for it in goal definition and validation. These are not new problems.
When I come across a paper/article/insight that connects to one or more things I'm working on, I generate 20-30 minute podcasts that do deep research, connect it back to my work, and target an angle I'm interested in. I can message my agent over Telegram and say "check this out [link] curious who else is working on this problem and if there's anything actionable we can glean from it in relation to [projectX], generate a podcast". It's been surprisingly good, and in my commutes I've found these more compelling to listen to than my normal rotation of stuff.
agreed. the long-running tasks i handle with immediate-background and continually edit message with updates, along with fork-and-reconcile semantics so you don't have to queue messages. also having a supergroup with separate topics for different sessions works really well.
the separate topics approach along with allowing other processes to enqueue messages into the session stream solves state pretty tidily, see "the session as decision-maker" in the linked report
pi is great and made popular some things that are really valuable, that hopefully spread to more projects (arbitrary forking with /tree, system prompt transparency and control). i was hoping to use it on a few projects but needed something to embed, and it didn't quite fit the bill. ended up building https://github.com/zackham/aloop which i am using in coordination with https://stepwise.run/ - reach if you're interested, both under active dev and deployed in systems doing real work.
Hey - OP here. I've been working on Ride with GPS since 2006 (!) and the game we've built is the most fun I've had in a long time. We're launching in PDX and if that is a success, we'll double down on it and roll it out to a bunch more cities. I want to do everything I can to stack the deck in our favor since I believe in this project.
I put together this landing page start to finish yesterday (thanks claude/grok), and am hoping it's effective in generating some initial interest. Looking for any feedback you have, small/large, however blunt, to dial it in and make it work for us.