16 Background Daemons: How Bridge ACE Keeps Your AI Team Running 24/7

16 Background Daemons: How Bridge ACE Keeps Your AI Team Running 24/7 Running AI agents is not just about starting them. It is about keeping them alive, healthy, and productive. Bridge ACE runs 16 background daemons that handle everything from crash recovery to idle detection. The Daemon Architecture Each daemon runs as a background thread in the main server process. No separate services to manage. No Docker containers to orchestrate. Health & Recovery Supervisor Daemon (60s loop) — Checks every agent's health. If an agent crashes (tmux session dies, process exits), the supervisor auto-restarts it. Your team recovers from failures without human intervention. Rate-Limit Resume — Detects when an AI provider rate-limits an agent (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google). Implements exponential backoff (1800s initial, 14400s max) and auto-resumes when the limit lifts. Restart Control — Manages graceful server restarts. Agents get warned, save their context, then the server restarts and brings everyone b