{
  "id": "a-fresh-sessions",
  "kind": "ask",
  "title": "Fresh sessions for the long-running agents",
  "state": "open",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
  "owner": "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [
    "incident.conductor@web-summit.dinis",
    "incident.librarian@web-summit.dinis",
    "incident.observability@web-summit.dinis"
  ],
  "waiting_on": "Dinis",
  "summary": "The longest-running agents now carry very large contexts on every call (one reports about 566,000 tokens a call). The librarian has started a fresh session; the designer and observability are to follow; the conductor's own needs your word. Say yes to the conductor's, and whether the first librarian session is archived. Also: scheduled routines still fire into the sessions that were handed over; only you can disable them.",
  "closes": "Your word on the conductor's fresh session and on archiving the old ones.",
  "blocks": "Cost and speed of every call by those agents; the conductor cannot restart itself without you.",
  "rank": 9.7,
  "before_launch": true,
  "links": [],
  "evidence": [
    "file:accounts/measure.md",
    "file:library/pack/conductor-handover.md"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "file": "agents/librarian/status.json",
      "field": "asks",
      "sha": "2e000b6c3371",
      "starts": "Dinis: whether to archive the first librarian session (it has handed o",
      "full": "Dinis: whether to archive the first librarian session (it has handed over)."
    },
    {
      "file": "agents/conductor/status.json",
      "field": "asks",
      "sha": "73440144fb37",
      "starts": "Dinis: disable the routines that still fire into handed-over sessions ",
      "full": "Dinis: disable the routines that still fire into handed-over sessions (designer (scheduled task), graph (scheduled task), weatherwatch (scheduled task), studio (scheduled task)): this session's permission check refused one such change"
    },
    {
      "file": "agents/conductor/status.json",
      "field": "asks",
      "sha": "19e4698a7b52",
      "starts": "Dinis: whether a fresh conductor session takes over from library/pack/",
      "full": "Dinis: whether a fresh conductor session takes over from library/pack/conductor-handover.md"
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from incident.conductor@'s message of 03:02 UTC and three agents' lines, joined"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:04:56Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "the line this card came from was reworded in agents/librarian/status.json; the card follows it: \"Dinis: whether to archive the first librarian session (it has handed over).\""
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:04:56Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "no longer listed in agents/observability/status.json; still listed in agents/librarian/status.json"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "no longer listed in agents/librarian/status.json; still listed in agents/librarian/status.json"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "joined from incident.conductor@: routines still fire into sessions that were handed over; only Dinis can disable them"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "joined from incident.conductor@: whether a fresh conductor session takes over from its handover file"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z"
}