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There is an asymmetry in most agentic workflows that does not get talked about much: humans have many ways to talk to agents, and almost no …
There is an asymmetry in most agentic workflows that does not get talked about much: humans have many ways to talk to agents, and almost no standardized way for agents to talk back to humans. You can
There is an asymmetry in most agentic workflows that does not get talked about much: humans have many ways to talk to agents, and almost no standardized way for agents to talk back to humans. You can write a prompt. You can define a task. You can interrupt the run. But if an agent is running in the background for four hours and hits a decision point, it either blocks and waits, fails silently, or guesses and continues. None of those outcomes are what you want. Remoko is an MCP tool that gives agents an iOS push notification channel back to you. The use cases Yohei shipped with it are specific: questions, approvals, check-ins, feedback, update/cancel requests, and execution reports. These are not notifications that say "your task completed." They are structured interrupts: the agent needs something from you mid-run. This matters more as agents run longer. A Codex task that runs for 20 minutes can probably wait for you to check a browser tab. A Claude Code workflow running overnight cannot. At that length, the question of how an agent reaches a human for a non-blocking check-in becomes a real infrastructure problem. The MCP standard is what makes Remoko generalized. Any agent framework that exposes MCP tools can use it: Codex, Claude Code, or any custom agent that speaks the protocol. The notification types map to a real taxonomy of what a long-horizon agent actually needs from a human: not just "done" or "failed" but "I am at a branch point, here are my options, which do you want?" BabyAGI was one of the first public demos of multi-step autonomous agents in 2023. Three years later, the problem Remoko solves is exactly what was always going to be the bottleneck: not whether agents can run autonomously, but how humans stay in the supervisory loop when they do. https://x.com/yoheinakajima/status/2086578009382023469 You don’t need new ways to talk to your agents, you need new ways for your agents to talk to you 🫵 (do you?) Introducing Remoko: your mobile agent relay http://remoko.app I wanted a way for my long-running agents to send me iOS push notifications via MCP: questions, approvals, c…
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Source: Yohei Nakajima (X) | 2026-08-10