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Card 495 of 10002026-08-24 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-08-24

Marlin, the daemon-native terminal agent

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Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A Zig-built terminal AI agent harness that keeps structured sessions alive in a background daemon while clients come and go.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-24 issue.

Field notes

Marlin separates a daemon that owns session state from thin TUI and headless clients, allowing a turn to continue after its terminal closes and making reattachment possible from another terminal over SSH. The page describes append-only durable history alongside compaction, content-addressed blobs, pruning, and usage accounting. It also documents a checksum-verifying installer for macOS and Linux architectures and identifies Zig 0.16.0 for source builds.

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⊠LoginAccess appeared gated
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use

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