--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Let''s Talk About FOMAT: Fear of Missing Agent Time — Michael Richman, Cmd+Ctrl' description: >- You kicked off an agent 30 minutes ago. It stopped after two minutes, blocked on a question, and has been waiting ever since. Michael Richman calls this FOMAT: fear of missing agent time. His answer is Cmd+Ctrl, a system that sends you a push notification when the agent needs input, lets you respond from your phone or watch, and lets you start new sessions from wherever you are. The demo shows Claude Code running in a terminal while the Cmd+Ctrl app on an iPhone mirrors the session in real time. Walk away, get notified when the agent completes or gets stuck, reply from the phone, pick up in the terminal. The same setup works across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others through a daemon that runs alongside each agent and reports to a shared control plane. The daemon layer is open source. 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Speaker info: - https://x.com/mrwoofster - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-richman-b7807b2/ - https://github.com/mrwoof --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/W-SX_srBa3Y-let-s-talk-about-fomat-fear-of-missing-agent-time Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/let-s-talk-about-fomat-fear-of-missing-agent-time-m-255843d24a16 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/let-s-talk-about-fomat-fear-of-missing-agent-time-m-255843d24a16.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T13:20:30.163Z' language: null children: [] videoId: W-SX_srBa3Y durationSeconds: 977 publishedAt: '2026-05-24T16:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 130 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 130 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 130 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 130 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 141 endSeconds: 230 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=141' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 241 endSeconds: 363 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=241' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 241 endSeconds: 363 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=241' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 375 endSeconds: 490 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=375' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 375 endSeconds: 490 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=375' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 501 endSeconds: 590 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=501' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 601 endSeconds: 692 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=601' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 601 endSeconds: 692 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=601' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 702 endSeconds: 836 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=702' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 702 endSeconds: 836 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=702' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 846 endSeconds: 977 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=846' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 846 endSeconds: 977 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/W-SX_srBa3Y?t=846' heldReason: rights --- # Let's Talk About FOMAT: Fear of Missing Agent Time — Michael Richman, Cmd+Ctrl You kicked off an agent 30 minutes ago. It stopped after two minutes, blocked on a question, and has been waiting ever since. Michael Richman calls this FOMAT: fear of missing agent time. His answer is Cmd+Ctrl, a system that sends you a push notification when the agent needs input, lets you respond from your phone or watch, and lets you start new sessions from wherever you are. The demo shows Claude Code running in a terminal while the Cmd+Ctrl app on an iPhone mirrors the session in real time. Walk away, get notified when the agent completes or gets stuck, reply from the phone, pick up in the terminal. The same setup works across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others through a daemon that runs alongside each agent and reports to a shared control plane. The daemon layer is open source. A standup dashboard summarizes all recent sessions so you can catch up without reading every thread. Speaker info: - https://x.com/mrwoofster - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-richman-b7807b2/ - https://github.com/mrwoof --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/W-SX_srBa3Y-let-s-talk-about-fomat-fear-of-missing-agent-time Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/let-s-talk-about-fomat-fear-of-missing-agent-time-m-255843d24a16 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:14 to 2:10) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (2:10 to 3:50) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (3:50 to 4:01) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (4:01 to 6:03) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (6:03 to 6:15) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (6:15 to 8:10) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (8:10 to 10:01) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (10:01 to 11:42) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (11:42 to 13:56) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (13:56 to 16:17) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.