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Agent status read out of the agent's own prose

Agent status is read from their own text, recognising phrases like "needs input:" and "blocked:".

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3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
AgentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
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What

Background and managed agents are now classified by scanning their output for state lines. Recognised prefixes are needs input:, failed:, blocked: and I'm blocked:, each accepting a colon, em dash or en dash, and a separate detector matches "Giving up" and "The task is not actionable" to mark an agent as having stopped.

Details
  • Matching is case-insensitive and captures 3 to 200 characters of the reason up to the end of the line.
Evidence

/(?:^|\n)\sneeds input\s[:\u2014\u2013-]\s*(.{3,200}?)(?=\n|$)/gi

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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