Backup Agents
Give any seat on an agent org chart or pipeline an ordered list of backup agents. When the agent in that seat crashes, exits out of quota, or stops responding, the next backup opens in its place with the conversation so far — so the run continues instead of stalling on one dead terminal.
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Why You Need This
How this feature boosts your daily productivity
A multi-agent run is only as reliable as its weakest seat. Before backup agents, a single crash or an exhausted quota froze every agent downstream of the one that died, and recovering meant noticing, finding the dead seat, restarting it by hand, and re-explaining everything it had already been told. Backup agents turn that dead stop into an automatic hand-off: the seat fills itself from a list you set, the work keeps moving, and you only get involved if the whole chain of backups runs out.
How It Works
Get started in 4 simple steps
Open a seat in Charts
Open a seat in the Charts builder and find Assignment on the right, with a Backup agents section beneath Terminal when starting.
Add backups in order
Click Add backup agent to stack up to three, each with its own agent, model and Terminal when starting preset.
Let a real death trigger the swap
When the primary agent's process actually dies, the next backup opens in the seat and inherits the transcript so far.
Or switch by hand
One click on a live-but-stuck seat hands it to the next backup; the active team labels the change as took over from.
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Key Capabilities
Everything included with Backup Agents
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