May 30, 2026 / Daily Edition / 1 story in this issue
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Agent Control Settings Are Becoming Session State

Fresh Codex and Hermes commits show a quieter agent shift: permissions, tool behavior, lineage, approval context, and auth fallbacks are being treated as state that has to survive the next turn.

Rough zine-style diagram showing agent control settings as evidence cards feeding into a circled session state notebook, with a caveat stamp reading Not a standard yet.
Diagram Punkthe control settings have to survive the session.
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