Running Instances

Every booted agent registers itself while it runs. One list, every live agent on the machine, whoever started it.

Not scoped to the folder you have open. An agent started from a terminal in another repo, one launched by the TUI, one running on a schedule — all of them appear. A process list that can hide a process is not a process list.

Subagents nest under the instance that spawned them.

Records are pid-checked on every read, so a crashed agent leaves the list on its own.

Starting one

Start Dev Server on any agent runs it the same way axon dev does. It joins the instances list a moment later.

Inspecting one

Point the Console at it and read it live.

Taking over

Open in TUI focuses that session in a running TUI — the same session, mid-run.

You are joining the conversation the agent is already having, not starting a new one.

Stopping

Stopping signals the process group rather than the process, because axon launches the runtime as a child — signalling the launcher alone would leave the runtime alive. The record disappears when the pid does.

Next: Assets — what you can dispatch.