workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief SKILL.md skillA
workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control
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plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 2, 2026
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- 12,045 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
An agent's brief is frozen at the moment you dispatch it, and whether you can correct it later is decided by WHICH DISPATCH MECHANISM you used, not by how urgent the correction is. A subagent spawned directly can be sent a message: it reads the correction and keeps everything it has already worked out. An agent running inside a workflow has no address — correcting it means stopping the workflow, editing its script, and resuming by run id, with completed phases replaying from cache. Use when…
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What the file says
# A workflow agent has no address — check its output, not its brief ## Problem Two facts that are easy to learn separately and expensive to learn together: 1. **A brief is frozen at dispatch.** Whatever the agent was told is what it believes for its whole run. Nothing you learn afterwards reaches it. 2. **Whether you can unfreeze it is a property of the dispatch mechanism**, decided before you knew you would need to. A subagent you spawned directly has an address. You can send it a message; it reads the correction and carries on with everything it has already worked out — the files it has read, the design it settled on, the half-written diff. An agent running as a phase inside a workflow has no address. To change what it was told you have to **stop the workflow, edit the script, and resume by run id** (`resumeFromRunId` in the harness this was learned on). Phases that already completed replay from cache, so the run is not lost — but the agent's own accumulated context is, and every call signature downstream of your edit re-runs live. So the moment you pick a dispatch mechanism, you have already decided whether that …
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How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief@sha256:812b21978bdb764aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hexcjal5vbw2t2yt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/workflow-agent-unreachable-mid-flight-check-output-not-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/812b21978bdb764a6cb4ecbccc496fe1bca1231add9e7e486a9b6ff8286243bf
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