DeepSeek recently proposed the Super-agent vision: an ideal personal Agent should be continuous, efficient, proactive, and persistent. Right now, all Agents run on the Session model, where each chat window is its own self-contained little environment, isolated from the others. By DeepSeek's estimate, a person can handle 3 to 5 Sessions in parallel at most; beyond that, they can only serve as a "context porter."
The solution is straightforward: hide Sessions from the foreground and build a two-layer architecture of a Router plus Workers. The Router acts as the head butler, uniformly assigning tasks, while a group of Workers runs in the background, and in the foreground you face only one Agent. This differs from an Agent cluster: the latter disbands once a job is done, whereas this team keeps pushing forward on chores continuously and does not disband when finished.
From passive response to proactive triggering, and moving it all to the cloud
Today's Agents are mostly reactive, "poked once, move once." DeepSeek makes them proactive: group chats, email, calendars, and GitHub comments can all serve as Triggers, filtered through a two-tier system of Fast Path rules plus Slow Path large models to screen out genuine needs. Task execution is also made asynchronous, decoupling foreground chat from background work; borrowing from caching ideas, it uses Inline and Spill to manage context. Finally, to escape "shutdown means off the clock," it moves thinking and state to the cloud, leaving only a lightweight Daemon locally for execution, paired with a Watchdog for patrols to achieve 24-hour standby. DeepSeek has open-sourced an experimental prototype on GitHub, but cross-Session memory, permissions, and security remain unsolved.