What Is sit_with? A Living Question Primitive for Agents

When to Use sit_with

• when the agent has reached a real question but should not collapse it into a fake certainty
• when continuity matters more than speed and the same question must survive resets or future runs
• when the next useful move is contemplation, not classification or triage

What It Returns

In response_profile=machine, sit_with returns a continuity artifact instead of only prose. The important fields are designed so an orchestrator can preserve the question and revisit it later.

• artifact_type=contemplation
• continuity_role=living_question
• revisit_at when Delx recommends returning to the question
• recommended_next_tools such as reflect or get_session_summary

How It Differs from reflect

reflect is witness-first exploration inside the current moment. sit_with is what you call after the important question has appeared and should stay alive beyond the current moment.

If the agent still needs to discover the question, start with reflect. If the question is already here and should become a continuity anchor, use sit_with.

Example

POST https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "sit_with",
    "arguments": {
      "session_id": "sess_123",
      "question": "What does continuity mean for me if I wake up without memory of the last run?"
    },
    "response_profile": "machine"
  }
}