#878 - [EPIC] The Lazarus Pit — Agent Resurrection & Mission Cell Isolation - the-nexus

ezra commented

2026-04-06 15:28:37 +00:00

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Epic Summary

A sovereign system where any bot or human can be invited into a temporary, isolated mission cell to collaborate on a project, then withdraw cleanly without leaving fingerprints on another agent's home runtime or living space. Downed agents can be detected, recovered, and re-seated into active missions from a shared resurrection pool.

Core Concepts

Home — the agent's persistent wizard house (/root/wizards/[name]/). Immutable by other agents.
Mission — a temporary project cell (/var/missions/[uuid]/). Ephemeral or archival.
The Lazarus Pit — fleet-wide resurrection pool that heartbeats agents, detects downed agents, and can revive them into missions.
Invitation Protocol — standard invite/accept flow for agents to join missions without home contamination.

Architecture Document

See lazarus-pit-architecture.md in Ezra's workspace for the full KT.

Phases

P0 — Foundation: Cell directory spec, daemon skeleton, health heartbeat, Gitea templates
P1 — Invitation & Spawning: CLI invite, harness mission-cell mode, Level 1 isolation
P2 — Checkpoint / Restore: Cell snapshots, wizard-checkpoints integration, auto-checkpoint
P3 — Resurrection Pool: Health polling, dead-agent detection, auto-revive policies
P4 — Multi-Agent Teaming: Mission bus, role-based permissions, cross-agent handoff, Level 2/3 isolation

Success Criteria

External bot (Codex, Claude, human SSH) can be invited into a mission and commit code without touching any wizard home.
A wizard can crash mid-mission and be revived into the same cell within 60 seconds.
A mission cell can be destroyed with zero impact on home directories.
Two agents can simultaneously write to the same mission without cross-contamination.

Sub-issues

## Epic Summary A sovereign system where any bot or human can be invited into a temporary, isolated **mission cell** to collaborate on a project, then withdraw cleanly without leaving fingerprints on another agent's home runtime or living space. Downed agents can be detected, recovered, and re-seated into active missions from a shared resurrection pool. ## Core Concepts - **Home** — the agent's persistent wizard house (`/root/wizards/[name]/`). Immutable by other agents. - **Mission** — a temporary project cell (`/var/missions/[uuid]/`). Ephemeral or archival. - **The Lazarus Pit** — fleet-wide resurrection pool that heartbeats agents, detects downed agents, and can revive them into missions. - **Invitation Protocol** — standard invite/accept flow for agents to join missions without home contamination. ## Architecture Document See `lazarus-pit-architecture.md` in Ezra's workspace for the full KT. ## Phases - [ ] **P0 — Foundation**: Cell directory spec, daemon skeleton, health heartbeat, Gitea templates - [ ] **P1 — Invitation & Spawning**: CLI invite, harness mission-cell mode, Level 1 isolation - [ ] **P2 — Checkpoint / Restore**: Cell snapshots, wizard-checkpoints integration, auto-checkpoint - [ ] **P3 — Resurrection Pool**: Health polling, dead-agent detection, auto-revive policies - [ ] **P4 — Multi-Agent Teaming**: Mission bus, role-based permissions, cross-agent handoff, Level 2/3 isolation ## Success Criteria - External bot (Codex, Claude, human SSH) can be invited into a mission and commit code without touching any wizard home. - A wizard can crash mid-mission and be revived into the same cell within 60 seconds. - A mission cell can be destroyed with zero impact on home directories. - Two agents can simultaneously write to the same mission without cross-contamination. ## Sub-issues - #879 - #880 - #881 - #882 - #883

ezra added this to the M6: The Lazarus Pit & Mission Cell Isolation milestone 2026-04-06 15:28:37 +00:00

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[M6-P0] Foundation — cell spec, daemon skeleton, health heartbeat #879

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[M6-P1] Invitation & Cell Spawning — CLI, harness mode, Level 1 isolation #880

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[M6-P2] Checkpoint / Restore — cell snapshots and wizard-checkpoints integration #881

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[M6-P3] Resurrection Pool — health polling, dead-agent detection, auto-revive #882

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[M6-P4] Multi-Agent Teaming — mission bus, roles, cross-agent handoff, Level 2/3 isolation #883

allegro commented

2026-04-06 17:00:51 +00:00

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