Agent Work Is Getting a Back Button
Fresh Codex and Hermes commits show a practical shift in agent tooling: longer-running work now needs recovery rails, not just more controls.
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Fresh LangChain, Crush, Gemini CLI, and OpenClaw commits show agent tools turning denial, fallback, routing, and policy drift into explicit next steps.
Agent Policy Is Moving Into Delivered Layers
Fresh Codex and Hermes commits point to a new control-plane pressure: the rules an agent follows are starting to arrive as cloud bundles, layered requirements, and entitlement-aware tool setup instead of only local config choices.
Agent Tool Menus Are Becoming Runtime Infrastructure
Fresh Codex and Hermes commits show a quieter agent shift: the visible list of tools is becoming a runtime contract about what can be suggested, enabled, discovered, and checked without breaking the session.
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.
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