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Coordinating multiple AI agents via HTTP lacks standard tooling

Developers building multi-agent workflows have no standardized way to pause, inspect, and manually intervene in agent execution loops. Existing frameworks require polling workarounds or custom infrastructure. This Show HN post describes a personal solution to the coordination gap.

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