restart before recreate
An agent lifecycle has a boring default: if a worker is broken, destroy it and build a new one. It is easy, it is total, and it throws away the only expensive thing in the system, which is the worker's accumulated context.
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TROUPE
12 notes filed under TROUPE, newest first. Same rules as the rest of the pile: a codename, a theme, and no internals.
TROUPE notes
all themes
artefact-replacement 1
build-versus-integrate 1
control-plane-minimalism 1
diagnosis-surface 1
graceful-degradation 1
isolation-boundary 1
live-command-authority 1
outside-in-observation 1
room-as-capability 1
verification-authority 1
verification-placement 1
worker-lifecycle 1
elsewhere
Other codenames
Each codename is a project. The theme is the class of problem the note is about — the same theme recurs across projects, which is usually the interesting part.