BOOT
The repeatable procedure for entering a repository and verifying its handoff.
Agent Session Protocol · V3
Continue the work.
A lightweight continuity protocol for agent work that outlasts a single context window, session, or repository.
Continuity means knowing what is true, what was decided, and what comes next.
Fresh context. Durable progress.
The protocol keeps small, differently-changing truths in separate files instead of asking a new agent to reconstruct the project from chat history.
STATE
Machine-readable truth about the active task, decisions, and current checkpoint.
QUEUE
The durable task that owns attention across many bounded sessions.
NEXT
The one authorized slice of work, with evidence gaps and scope fences.
A queue is not a session.
Long-lived priorities and immediate authority are different things. The protocol makes that distinction explicit.
- 01BOOTRecover the procedure.
- 02STATELoad current truth.
- 03QUEUEName the durable task.
- 04NEXTBound the next action.
- 05CHECKPOINTCommit evidence coherently.
Built in FastImg. Extracted for the next project.
The first version was a resume file in FastImg. It became separate recovery, state, next-work, and evidence artifacts; the reusable protocol followed. The implementation story explains what those files had to survive.
Read the implementation story →