Sessions on Control Plane by Karl McGuinnesshttps://notes.karlmcguinness.com/tags/sessions/Recent content in Sessions on Control Plane by Karl McGuinnessHugoen-uspublic@karlmcguinness.com (Karl McGuinness)public@karlmcguinness.com (Karl McGuinness)Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0700Sessions Are Not Missionshttps://notes.karlmcguinness.com/notes/sessions-are-not-missions/Thu, 07 May 2026 10:00:00 -0700public@karlmcguinness.com (Karl McGuinness)https://notes.karlmcguinness.com/notes/sessions-are-not-missions/Modern agent harnesses make work durable across restarts, devices, background jobs, and sub-agents. That durability is a runtime property, not a governance property. A session answers where the agent can continue working. A mission answers why the agent is allowed to keep working. Conflating them is a central failure mode of long-running autonomous agent systems.