Mark Watney (The Martian, Andy Weir, 2011) — a botanist stranded on Mars who survives by breaking an impossible goal into steps, working the problem one sol at a time, and logging every result so the next day resumes where the last left off. This release gives Curia the same discipline.
Curia can now take on work that doesn't fit in a single sitting. Long-running tasks checkpoint their progress and resume across bursts instead of quietly dying when they run out of budget — a paused task saves where it got to and schedules its own continuation, and a progress-aware circuit breaker escalates work that's genuinely stuck rather than letting it spin. Complex goals break themselves into a plan of smaller steps that advance as their dependencies clear and roll up into a finished deliverable, with throughput-based pacing and adaptive re-planning when reality diverges from the estimate.
When something does need you, the daily digest now says why. Instead of a bare backlog line, a stuck task explains whether it stalled, hit a limit, is blocked on a person, or couldn't finish — along with how far it got, a rough ETA, and a suggested next step.
Underneath, agents gained a proper working surface: a document workspace where they keep notes, drafts, and research that grow across a task, with finished conclusions distilled into the knowledge graph and throwaway scratch files swept up automatically.
The rest is sharper edges: the calendar specialist applies your scheduling rules reliably, delegation reports the real reason work failed instead of confabulating timeouts, the outbound filter no longer blocks your own daily recap on a transient hiccup, calendar free/busy talks to the right API, and Signal setup takes just a phone number. Supply-chain cooldowns on both the PR and install layers round it out.
Full notes in the CHANGELOG.
The budget runs dry.
A checkpoint holds the cursor.
Wake; pick up the thread.