September 8, 2026 / Latest Daily Edition / 3 stories in this issue
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A Child Agent Can't Promise Its Watcher to the Parent

Hermes now makes a child wait, kill, or formally hand over background work before it returns—ending one treacherous kind of progress report.

Photocopied marker diagram showing a child agent’s watcher stopped at teardown unless a handoff crosses a registry lock to the parent, with a live-handoff-not-restart-safe caveat.
Diagram PunkHermes makes the owner of a background result visible before the child leaves.
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