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filipbalucha commented on Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents    · Posted by u/filipbalucha
CrispAI · 6 days ago
The version pinning approach for existing tasks is a pattern I've found really useful in practice. When you're building document processing workflows (transcripts, reports, etc.) the ability to iterate on your agent logic without retroactively breaking existing user sessions is underrated.

One question: for the "existing tasks stay on old version" case, do you support any kind of manual migration trigger? E.g. if I fix a genuine bug in how I'm parsing a document, I might want to re-run the agent on specific old workspaces with the new version, rather than waiting for users to start new tasks.

filipbalucha · 6 days ago
Good question.

> for the "existing tasks stay on old version" case, do you support any kind of manual migration trigger

Yes, we support manually migrating tasks using "tu tasks migrate".

> if I fix a genuine bug in how I'm parsing a document, I might want to re-run the agent on specific old workspaces with the new version, rather than waiting for users to start new tasks

In this case the better pattern is to create new tasks against those old workspaces on the fixed version. You could do this on behalf of your users.

filipbalucha commented on Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents    · Posted by u/filipbalucha
goosejuice · 6 days ago
At least on K8s you can control the network policy. That's the harder problem to solve. I suspect we'll see a lot of exfiltration via prompt injection in the next few years.
filipbalucha · 6 days ago
good point! programmable network policy and a gateway to prevent secret exfiltration are on the roadmap.
filipbalucha commented on Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents    · Posted by u/filipbalucha
CharlesW · 6 days ago
> We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work.

When I read this, I think of Fly.io's sprites.dev. Is that reasonable, or do you consider this product to be in a different space? If the latter, can you ELI5?

filipbalucha · 6 days ago
We overlap at the sandbox layer, but we're focused more on the layer above that: packaging agent code + deploying/versioning it, managing tasks over time, handling message persistence, and attaching durable workspaces to those tasks.

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