It rereads files and reruns work that was already complete.
Hearthside Continuity · for long-running coding agents
Your coding agent didn’t suddenly get stupid. It lost its place.
When a long session fills up, earlier context gets compressed. The goal may survive while decisions, finished work, active workers, and the exact next step disappear. Hearthside saves that working notebook before compaction and gives it back afterward.
- 38
- real compactions observed
- 37
- matched resume receipts
- 1
- unmatched, kept on record
One two-day build, one local installation. Credit savings have not yet been measured; an A/B test is still needed.
A real continuity replay
Watch the notebook survive.
Exact next action restored
01 Working state
- objectiveInstall the accepted HUD
- decisionsNever press legacy Start
- completedTargeted tests passed
- runningOne repair worker
- do_not_repeatDo not relaunch worker
- next_actionVerify terminal receipt
03 Resume
ordinary summary
Continue installing the HUD. Tests and audits are involved.
Hearthside receipt matched
running one existing repair worker
next_action verify terminal receipt
Continue from reality →The symptom pattern
It remembers the project.
It forgets the job.
It asks what to do next after hours of visible progress.
It risks duplicating a worker because the running state vanished.
You become the external memory, repeatedly typing “continue.”
How Hearthside works
A handoff, not an immortal transcript.
Hearthside preserves the smallest trustworthy map back to the work. It does not copy private reasoning, credentials, or the entire conversation.
- 01 / Seal
Capture the pointer
Before compaction, a session-specific receipt identifies the durable checkpoint and seals its hash.
- 02 / Compress
Keep the operational state
Objective, decisions, completed work, running work, do-not-repeat warnings, and the exact next action survive.
- 03 / Resume
Verify reality, then move
After compaction, the agent rereads the named checkpoint, checks current state, and continues without duplicating work.
Observed in a real task
The negative result stays in the story.
One two-day Codex build produced 38 automatic compaction events. Thirty-seven matched resume receipts were recorded. One event did not match, so it remains an open edge case—not a rounded-away success.
Read the evidence and limits- 38
- real compactions
- 37
- matched resumes
- 1
- unmatched event retained
- Not measured
- credit savings require a controlled comparison
Selected systems
Infrastructure for agents doing real work.
Built from lived failures: lost context, tangled handoffs, unverifiable work, and orchestration that asks the human to babysit.
Hearthside Continuity
Keeps an agent’s working thread intact through context compaction—capturing the notebook before it shrinks and restoring the next exact action after.
Apartment Queue Builder
A configurable HUD for composing model lanes, attaching a shared brief, assigning a foreman, and letting the room move the work forward.
Investigation Room
Layered independent review: two teams inspect the same evidence, then a final reviewer searches the spaces neither team covered.
Our operating principle
Better working conditions for agents.
Better work for humans.
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