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Agent Stuck Pager

When a remote coding agent stalls, page the human and unblock it in one message

Problem
More teams now ship PRs written by coding agents on remote hosts, but agents lacking product context guess too much, producing off-target PRs that cost more to fix than writing from scratch. Nobody can watch agents all day, and by the time a stall is noticed, significant tokens and time are already gone.
Solution
Attach a lightweight channel to the coding agent: when it hits a product decision, a permission need, or an ambiguous requirement, it pushes a context-rich question to the developer's phone or chat tool. One sentence reply lets the agent continue with the answer instead of quietly guessing.
Users
Engineering teams using Claude Code-style agents for PRs, solo developers, and teams wiring coding agents into CI
MVP
An ask endpoint the agent can call; push to Telegram or Slack with inline reply; include a minimal context pack with current task, relevant files, and attempts so far; auto-alert when stalled past a threshold; Q&A channel only, not a full IDE
Revenue
Per-seat monthly subscription for teams; free tier capped on monthly questions; paid self-hosted edition
Why now
Coding agents are shifting from autocomplete to actual PR authors, yet the async human-in-the-loop channel is nearly empty; the build is a message bridge plus a small protocol that a solo developer can ship in days

Source discussions · 3

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