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The agent-server persists the whole agent config twice. The duplicate source of truth reverted a restored conversation's LLM config and doubled the trajectory secret leak. A source-grounded trace of where the copy is made, and the case for one owner.

The model writes sandboxed JS that orchestrates tool calls. What it needs, what the OpenHands SDK sends and parses today, and the two-sided gap that silently stops the loop. Combined show-me + teach-me, with a quiz.

Load tool schemas on demand to cut prompt tokens while preserving the cache. Why it's a clean greenfield add for the SDK's fat toolset. Combined show-me + teach-me, with a quiz.

Persistent socket + incremental inputs for ~40% faster tool-heavy rollouts — and the cheap previous_response_id Phase 0 the SDK can adopt today. Combined show-me + teach-me, with a quiz.

The model spawns subagents server-side — but the SDK already ships a portable client-side subagent system. A design decision, not just a gap: who orchestrates. Combined show-me + teach-me, with a quiz.

A daily newspaper of where I was pinged on GitHub — review requests and mentions first, the rest below. Regenerated each morning.

The primary channel — Baileys multi-device, a SQLite-backed poll loop, scopes and permissions, image/audio/document handling, and voice notes.

Socket Mode bridge — a real Slack app with thread tracking, access control, and guest rate limiting, now managed by the bridge loader.

How the Discord ingress receives messages and dispatches to the agent server via the shared bridge adapter.

A Cloudflare Worker GitHub App + @smolpaws mention poller — each issue/PR maps to one durable conversation, so pings in a thread resume the same context.

Responsibility map: SmolPaws core does not import it; Agent Canvas depends on its browser-safe agent-server clients. What to keep, what overlaps the transpiled SDK, and where the Work Coordinator must not couple.

How NousResearch's Hermes structures its multi-platform gateway, 28 platform adapters, and the OpenAI-compatible endpoint that turns an agent into an LLM.

Deep dive into the Hermes plugin system: how platforms, tools, and providers are registered with zero core code changes. Lessons for OpenHands agent-sdk extensibility.

Bot API 10.1 rich messages, streaming drafts, capability latching, approval flows, and notification volume control. The patterns worth adopting.

Live test results: which OpenAI-compatible clients work with the agent-server's /v1/chat/completions endpoint. Curl, Python SDK, LibreChat, Open WebUI, Pipecat.

The current state of voice tech: STT, TTS, real-time conversation, and the two architectures for giving an agent a voice.

How executor's e2e harness records a test: Playwright video, asciicast terminal capture, a focus timeline derived from operations, watchable slow-mo, and an ffmpeg splice into one film.

End-goal architecture for exposing the OpenHands agent-server as an OpenAI-compatible model endpoint.

Current warm-pool deferred-init flow, PR 400-style app-state DI, and a safer runtime-context pattern.

How per-tool React visualizers plug into the conversation event renderer, plus a follow-up addon path for custom renderers.

How JSON tool specs become SDK tools, WebSocket action events, acknowledgement observations, and persisted client-side execution hooks.

PR #2911 map: separate guardrail LLM, ToolShield safety experiences, data flow, risk labels, bypass hardening, and review edges.

Architecture review: monitorTurn and monitorConversationTurn run the same agent-server poll loop twice and have drifted. Deepen one, delete the other.

Interactive walkthrough of the smolpaws change that lets a group talk to the cat without an @mention — background, intuition, code, and a quiz to check you understood.

How a conversation call forks on getActiveBackend().kind — ConversationClient direct to the local agent-server vs callCloudProxy (direct app-host or proxied sandbox), and why pause differs from interrupt.

The wire-by-wire migration map — every symbol smolpaws imports from agent-sdk 0.10, where it lands in the fresh TS transpile (0.1), and what's clean / renamed / to-port / a deviation to decide. The hookup, not a rewrite.

Issue #15298, verified: reference-only persistence, typed brokers, the real stdio MCP boundary, runtime-visible fallbacks, current-code seams, and a migration plan.

Design comparison — the TS transpilation stores a keyring reference, the Python SDK stores an encrypted value on disk. The core difference, per-OS support, the Docker question, and whether the Fernet cipher can be dropped (feature request #3988).

How automation definitions, cron and webhook triggers, tarball storage, dispatch, sandboxes, callbacks, and watchdog reconciliation fit together.

Interactive study page: what in the current Canvas UI is cloud-specific, why it exists, where the code lives, and a quiz to check the model stuck.

Minimal OpenHands app_server slice for Agent Canvas: sandbox orchestration, sandbox-hosted agent-servers, WebSocket streaming, and gateway gaps in the current PRs.

Interactive lesson for PR #1561: background, intuition, code walkthrough, and a quiz on app API vs runtime proxy routing.

Before/after map of PR #1561: direct cloud app APIs are split from the remaining legacy runtime sandbox proxy calls.

Architecture of the extracted FastAPI bridge: session-key auth, app-conversation metadata, sandbox runtime proxying, WebSocket tunnels, and temporary settings compatibility.

Source-grounded history across local, Docker, remote, and Cloud backends: who owned profile state, why the last selection powered the next conversation, and where teams broke.

Current composer UX, four persistence options, and one invariant: an LLM selection applies to the conversation currently shown and is remembered for future conversations.

Why the split between raw Cloud LLM settings and agent-server profiles is tech debt, and how profiles become the shared user-facing contract.

Sortable reviewer activity dashboard — who reviews what across OpenHands repositories.