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- Brilliant. I wish the the durable application state wasn't restricted to just the json documents though. There should be some sort of integrated way of implementing the outbox pattern so external stores can be synchronized with the conversation state.by vmg12
- I like the multi-user bit the most. Should make it easier to build my remote control tool, as something I've had to hack around is not being able to use ACP while the TUI is active in an instance.by skeledrew
- super interesting. I have so many half-considered questions... like sandboxing (it seems like it is BYO). would love to have some kind of policy engine.. perhaps an integration with https://github.com/NVIDIA/openshell in the form of an extension?
also, I see most of the durability promise comes from persisting JSON documents locally and minimizing the amount of context/data kept in-memory, even during SQLite mode. while this makes sense, my own experiments with a process that relied on a JSONL-based event store have led me to prefer keeping things in-memory to avoid all the friction with I/O.. am I crazy for preferring just a straight .db file being persisted?
by rsalus - What are people using these infinitely-running agents for?by phainopepla2
- > The entire source code, without tests, is about 15,000 lines, which comes out to about 150,000 tokens with GPT and about 250,000 with Claude.
Woah, that big of a difference when it comes to token counting?
by ireadmevs - This stuff is really complicated. Just trying to build a harness coordinating multiple instances of vanilla pi has been a bit of a nightmare. I'm not sure if the huge added complexity is worth it but kudos for trying and labelling as experimental.by ernsheong
- One decision here which seems like a large break from the original pi is that Durable doesn't support branching conversation trees, it only supports conversation forks with ancestry information. Can anyone speculate (or confirm, if you happen to be Armin or Mario) why this is, and if that is necessary for the durable guarantees? The branching conversations are still an immutable data structure, so I can't see why this would be necessary, but perhaps I'm missing something.by lemming
- Very cool to see Pi build a durable agent harness too. I've been building in this space for quite some time myself [0][1] and it is a super interesting place of innovation. Less hype-y that on-your-machine coding agents, but all major players are building products in this space: LangChain Deep Agents, Vercel Eve, OpenAI Agents API, Anthropic Managed Agents, etc.
The main reasons are:
1) they are "durable", i.e. easier to make long-running in an unattended way, and easier to implement recovery, monitoring, etc
2) separating the harness from the compute brings safety and scaling benefits
3) easier to make multi-player.
by lukebuehler