[meisnerd]

"Orchestrating amnesiacs" — that's a good way to put it, and it's a fair critique of any system spawning claude -p sessions.

Mission Control's mitigation is treating the shared data layer as the durable state rather than the session itself. Each agent session is ephemeral, but it reads from and writes to persistent JSON files — tasks, inbox, decisions, activity log — so the accumulated state of all previous sessions is available to the next one. There's also a compressed context snapshot (ai-context.md, ~650 tokens) that gets regenerated and gives each new session situational awareness: what's done, what's in progress, what's blocked, what decisions are pending.

So agents aren't fully amnesiac — they inherit the project state — but you're right that they can't replay their own previous reasoning. If an agent tried approach A in session 1 and it failed, session 2 only knows that if someone (or the agent itself) wrote it down in the task notes or activity log. That's a manual bridge, not a structural one.

Named, resumable sessions with full transcript replay would be a better foundation. That's more of a Claude Code platform feature than something I can build on top — but if claude -p ever supports session IDs or transcript export, wiring that into Mission Control's task history would be a natural fit.

Curious what you're using for the persistent session layer — custom wrapper around the API, or something off-the-shelf?