Detect and pause duplicate in-flight agent work

Detect and pause duplicate in-flight agent work Harness-driven collision detection should protect usage before agents duplicate active, planned, or shipped work. Runnable reproduction / implementation sketch onAgentProgress(snapshot) -> findSimilarWork(active agents + planned/in development/shipped tickets) -> confidence >= 0.90: checkpoint + soft pause + notify -> confidence >= 0.70: inject related-work context Steps Track each agent objective, scope, files, and progress. Compare against agents and backlog lifecycle states. Inject related context without an MCP call. Checkpoint and soft-pause only high-confidence duplicates. Let users stand down, redirect, merge, or resume. Safety Product proposal. Similarity alone must never hard-kill an agent. Observed Agents explicitly told to inspect the backlog still filed differently worded duplicates. Sanity review repeatedly consolidated overlapping roots. Expected / proposed Prevent duplicate work while preserving user control and avoiding destructive cancellation. Why it matters Reduces wasted tokens, overlapping implementations, duplicate tickets, and concurrent work obscuring features.

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• The team6 days ago

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