the agent that doesn't die when you close the tab

a parasol user told us last week that they'd left their agent running overnight, came back the next morning, and found nothing had happened. no trades, no errors, no obvious reason. they were not wrong about the symptom. their browser tab had been closed mid-cycle and the agent had stopped almost immediately after.

we used to call our agents "24/7." technically that meant "24/7, while your browser is open and your laptop isn't asleep and your wifi hasn't dropped." that's not 24/7. that's "for as long as you stay awake," which is a different product.

so we built a real one.

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what changed

there is now a dedicated runner mode at parasol.so/dashboard/runner that runs your agent on our server, not your browser. you start it once. you close the tab. you go to sleep. you go to work. you go on holiday. the agent keeps trading.

three things make this real instead of marketing:

that third one matters more than it sounds.

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the diagnostic principle

the user who reported "agent did nothing for 30 minutes" was looking at a dashboard that said "cycles: 0 · last cycle: 11 seconds ago." both numbers were wrong in different ways. the cycle count was always zero because we'd never wired it through for the new runner. "last cycle" ticked forward every 30 seconds whether or not the agent had actually done any work, because it was being written by a heartbeat instead of by the agent itself.

a counter that lies is worse than a counter that's missing. if the dashboard says "11 seconds ago" you trust it. if you trust it, you wait. if you wait, you don't get help. so the user waited 30 minutes for an agent that was, in reality, dead from the moment they'd looked.

we rebuilt the entire status surface around one rule: only write what's actually true.

if your agent stops, you now find out within seconds and you find out why.

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the personas, all of them, on the runner

the runner panel exposes the same agent personalities you've always had in the cockpit. sienna, claudia, yuki, ivy, grok, ghost, scalper. each one is the same engine and the same exit logic as the cockpit version of the same character — same composite scoring, same take-profit ladder, same trailing stops, same time-exits. you pick a persona, you pick a risk profile (careful, aggressive, degen), you pick paper or live, and you start.

the personality dropdown matches the agent roster on the cockpit page. archived experimental modes were deliberately excluded so you can't accidentally start a paused strategy. if you want to read about the personas in detail, meet-the-agents is still the primary reference, with the caveat that the active roster has tightened since that post.

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isolated per user

every server agent runs in its own isolated worker, with its own wallet, its own configuration, its own state. nothing leaks between users. the wallet your agent signs trades with is the wallet you've connected to your account, and only the wallet you've connected to your account, and we refuse to start an agent if we can't resolve that wallet cleanly.

this is the unglamorous foundation of the whole 24/7 promise. "your agent's wallet is your agent's wallet" sounds obvious. making it actually true under multi-tenant load is one of the hardest parts of any agent platform. we spent a meaningful chunk of the last two weeks on this and we now have the test coverage to prove it works.

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the cockpit isn't going anywhere

we want to be explicit about this because the first version of the runner page implied otherwise: the cockpit at /dashboard/agents keeps every feature it has today. the live scanner, the per-token charts, the manual buy and sell, the watchlist, the multi-agent management — all of it stays. server-mode is additive, not a replacement.

if you're a cockpit user with muscle memory for the existing layout, do nothing. your positions, your watchlist, your agents are exactly where you left them.

if you want set-and-forget — close the tab, walk away, come back — start a server agent. you can run both. they coexist on the same account.

we're going to follow up by giving the cockpit's autonomous loop the same tab-close survival the runner has, so eventually you get the rich ui and the headless reliability without having to choose. that's a separate piece of work.

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what's next

a few things that did not make this round but are next on the list:

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try it

if you're already a parasol user: go to /dashboard/runner. pick a persona. pick a risk profile. start it. close the tab.

if you're not yet: parasol.so/beta is the way in.

close your tab. go to sleep.

parasol keeps trading.

— the parasol team