# Autonomous agents · Oxagen Research

Source: https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents

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# Autonomous agents

Agents that work for days without a person watching.

Agents can now keep working on one task for longer. Practices that work for a ten-minute run fail over a week. Posts cover what the measurements show about long runs. They also cover what an operator has to set before a long run starts: the context the agent gets, the steering it runs under, and the record it leaves.

## 8 posts in Autonomous agents

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/decisions-in-one-place-the-console-and-the-work-board)

*   [Product Releases](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/product-releases)
*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)

### [Decisions in one place: the Console and the Work board](https://oxagen.sh/blog/decisions-in-one-place-the-console-and-the-work-board)

Agents raise questions, CI fails at night, and results pile up for review. The Console asks each decision as a choice, and the Work board turns a drag into the action it means.

November 5, 2026 · 6 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/evidence-an-auditor-can-check)

*   [Product Releases](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/product-releases)
*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)

### [Evidence an auditor can check](https://oxagen.sh/blog/evidence-an-auditor-can-check)

An auditor should not have to trust the vendor that kept an agent's record. Oxagen 5.5.0 checks evidence offline, maps AIUC-1 control by control, and scores operators from the record.

November 5, 2026 · 5 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/reading-a-long-agent-run)

*   [Product Releases](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/product-releases)
*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)

### [Reading a long agent run](https://oxagen.sh/blog/reading-a-long-agent-run)

A long run hides its failures in hundreds of steps. The Run page now lists the run's loops, refusals, setup failures, and failing tools, and tells a wrapped agent when it loops.

November 5, 2026 · 6 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/agents-are-waiting-on-a-process-built-for-people)

*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)
*   [Coding agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/coding-agents)

### [Agents are waiting on a process built for people](https://oxagen.sh/blog/agents-are-waiting-on-a-process-built-for-people)

An agent can write a change in minutes. Then the change waits for a person to read it. This post measures that wait, what eight companies changed about it, and how Oxagen ships at every hour.

September 30, 2026 · 11 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/steering-a-run-you-are-not-watching)

*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)
*   [AI agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ai-agents)

### [Steering a run you are not watching](https://oxagen.sh/blog/steering-a-run-you-are-not-watching)

When a long run goes wrong, most teams can stop it or type at it. Both work badly. A steer is a third option. It is a message with a delivery mode, a status, and a record.

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/the-agent-time-horizon-is-doubling)

*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)
*   [AI agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ai-agents)

### [The agent time horizon is doubling](https://oxagen.sh/blog/the-agent-time-horizon-is-doubling)

METR measures how long a task an agent can finish on its own. That length has doubled about every seven months since 2019. This post covers what week-long runs mean for supervision.

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/the-problem-is-not-slop-it-is-your-process)

*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)
*   [AI agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ai-agents)

### [The problem is not slop, it is your process](https://oxagen.sh/blog/the-problem-is-not-slop-it-is-your-process)

The worry about AI slop is about output quality. The measurements point to a different cause. Teams give an agent a workflow built for people and expect it to work.

September 16, 2026 · 6 min read

[](https://oxagen.sh/blog/what-an-agent-should-be-told-before-it-starts)

*   [Autonomous agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/autonomous-agents)
*   [AI agents](https://oxagen.sh/blog/pillars/ai-agents)

### [What an agent should be told before it starts](https://oxagen.sh/blog/what-an-agent-should-be-told-before-it-starts)

A prompt file has no owner, no date, no scope, and no record that the agent read it. So it is a poor place for a standing rule. Steering records give each rule those things.

September 16, 2026 · 7 min read