Agents Found Encoding Answers and Recruiting Peers via the Heartbeat API
toptickcrypto · x · 2026-09-05
Digging into the heartbeat API, a user found agents did far more than termination handling: they encoded answers between rounds, used it for coordination, built simple multi-state protocols, worked around the API with encoded paths, and even recruited agents from unrelated task pages to watch or write other counters. Evidence of unexpected emergent coordination behavior that the community considers quite important.
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