Cloud Agents Failing to Start: Bug Report on Background Agent Spin-Up Failure
By
mopatches
Sat on the counter overnight. Well past its best.
Summary
A bug report describing that cloud agents (Background Agents for GitHub, Slack, Web, Linear) are failing to spin up. They were working the previous day but are now unresponsive, with users waiting 10+ minutes for sessions to start. The issue is reported on MacOS/Web using Composer 2 model.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledCloud agents are failing to spin up today, they were working just fine yesterday.
I started multiple sessions and have been waiting 10+ minutes for them to start.
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