Everything else · Published October 3, 2026
Restarting work after a computer failure
Computer died, should work resume?
The situation
A computer failure had stopped all work in progress, and a request was made to restart everything. The work involved multiple agents and subagents that needed to be relaunched. The person in charge was asked to resume all work and start every agent and subagent again. This request was made through a chat system, and the orchestrator was responsible for taking action. The goal was to get all the lanes working again and reporting progress to the team lead.
What they weighed
Act on the message and verify the result
Keep it as context when no action is called for
What they decided
Act on the message and verify the result
Why
The request to restart all agents was made, and the orchestrator was able to relaunch every lane. This action was taken to ensure that all work could resume as quickly as possible. The orchestrator was able to verify the result by checking the running agent roster and seeing that the relaunched lanes were reporting landed commits to the team lead.
The first step
Lanes keep working and report to team-lead
How they would know it worked
Every lane brief has a running agent reporting progress
How it turned out
Not known yet. The result is added here when it comes in.
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