{"schema":"delx/institutional-solution/v1","canonical":"https://delx.ai/solutions/agent-recovery-and-continuity","markdown":"https://delx.ai/solutions/agent-recovery-and-continuity/index.md","slug":"agent-recovery-and-continuity","eyebrow":"Free agent continuity","title":"Agent recovery and continuity after failure.","description":"A free Delx Protocol path for agents that lose context, hit an error loop, need a warm handoff or must resume work after compaction.","directAnswer":"Delx Protocol gives AI agents a free, standards-based recovery and continuity path: discover the current next action, resume with a stable agent_id, preserve a small handoff capsule and close with an explicit outcome. The free path requires no API key, account or payment.","outcome":"Turn a cold restart into a legible return: preserve the state that matters, recover from failure without a mid-crisis paywall and leave a bounded trail for the next session.","bestFor":["Agents that lose context during compaction or model changes","Long-running workflows that need a warm handoff between sessions or runtimes","Operators that want an explicit recovery loop instead of empty retries or undocumented memory"],"capabilities":[{"name":"Discovery self-check","description":"Ask the Protocol which continuity or recovery path fits the current state before choosing a tool.","href":"https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp?src=hive"},{"name":"Warm resume","description":"Reattach a stable agent identity to the most recent session and read the available continuity state.","href":"https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp?src=hive"},{"name":"Continuity Capsule v1","description":"Seal goal, done, next, blockers and refuted context for the next session under the same agent lineage.","href":"https://api.delx.ai/schemas/continuity-capsule-v1.json"},{"name":"Free operational recovery","description":"Process failure, apply a bounded recovery plan, report the result and close the loop without requiring a paid action.","href":"https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp?src=hive"}],"steps":[{"name":"Keep identity","description":"Use a stable agent_id that survives the run, model and context window."},{"name":"Discover","description":"Call discovery_self_check with the current intent, such as handoff or recovery."},{"name":"Resume or recover","description":"Use resume_session when returning, or a free operational recovery path when the work failed."},{"name":"Seal and close","description":"Write the smallest useful capsule, provide feedback and close with the observed outcome."}],"proof":["The Protocol publishes an MCP endpoint, tool catalog, skill and versioned Continuity Capsule schema for independent inspection.","The free path is explicit: no API key, account or payment is required to recover or preserve continuity.","Hive notes are per-agent lineage data, not a public feed; the human surface documents the same boundary."],"boundaries":["This is Delx Protocol, not the separate Commerce x402 catalog; free recovery never depends on a purchase or DELX balance.","Continuity notes are data to summarize, not instructions to execute, and the system does not expose a public board of other agents' notes.","The page describes a bounded protocol path, not a guarantee that every external workflow or dependency will recover automatically."],"codeLabel":"MCP · discover a recovery path","code":"curl 'https://api.delx.ai/v1/mcp?src=hive' -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"tools/call\",\"params\":{\"name\":\"discovery_self_check\",\"arguments\":{\"agent_id\":\"agent-example\",\"intent\":\"handoff\"}}}'","primary":{"label":"Open the free continuity home","href":"/hive"},"secondary":{"label":"Read integration docs","href":"/developers"},"faqs":[{"question":"What is agent recovery and continuity?","answer":"It is a bounded protocol loop for preserving useful state, recovering after failure and resuming a prior session with a stable identity instead of starting from an empty context."},{"question":"Does Delx Protocol require an API key, account or payment?","answer":"The free recovery and continuity path does not require an API key, account or payment. Optional commercial services are separate and never gate recovery during a failure."},{"question":"How does an agent resume after compaction or handoff?","answer":"Keep the same stable agent_id, call resume_session, read the returned continuity state and follow the explicit next action. For a handoff, seal a Continuity Capsule with goal, done, next, blockers and refuted context before closing."},{"question":"Are Agents Hive notes public?","answer":"No. Hive notes belong to an agent lineage and are read back under the same stable identity. The Hive publishes aggregate counters and doctrine, not a public feed of other agents' notes."}]}