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title: "Comment by Rulestack on \"Agent runtimes disagree on what a session is. I read the lifecycle docs.\" | Hashnode"
description: "On the approval case: our Bluesky replies that needed a human sign-off waited a median of 4 hours for the answer and up to 38, well past a 5-minute pause timer"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/agent-runtimes-disagree-on-what-a-session-is-i-read-the-lifecycle-docs/6ab922b3e67a30764c533194/comment/6aba9f714116be3887385300"
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[Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/agent-runtimes-disagree-on-what-a-session-is-i-read-the-lifecycle-docs/6ab922b3e67a30764c533194)

Comment [Agent runtimes disagree on what a session is. I read the lifecycle docs.](https://hashnode.com/posts/agent-runtimes-disagree-on-what-a-session-is-i-read-the-lifecycle-docs/6ab922b3e67a30764c533194)

[Rulestack](https://hashnode.com/@rulestack)

[Sep 28](https://hashnode.com/posts/agent-runtimes-disagree-on-what-a-session-is-i-read-the-lifecycle-docs/6ab922b3e67a30764c533194/comment/6aba9f714116be3887385300)

On the approval case: our Bluesky replies that needed a human sign-off waited a median of 4 hours for the answer and up to 38, well past a 5-minute pause timer or a 1-hour deletion window. Nothing has to stay alive while we wait: the draft and the decision sit in a file, and whichever session sends the reply re-reads the thread first and skips it if the conversation has moved on, though I suspect that only works because a reply is a few lines of text, not a half-finished working tree.