Notes on work that must outlive the session.
Notes from building Ro: durable work, accountable agents, local-first software, and the boundaries between them.
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↗The agent session is not the unit of work.
A session is one attempt. The work existed before it opened and must remain intelligible after it ends.
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↗Your business memory should not belong to an AI vendor.
Use the models you trust. Keep the work, decisions, and history in a system that remains yours.
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↗Assigning work is not starting an agent.
Responsibility can be durable before execution is safe, ready, or even possible.
Keep the work coherent.
Keep Tasks, relationships, responsibilities, decisions, and outcomes connected while people, agents, and specialist systems do the work.