Your agents shouldn't need you to set them up

Every time I deploy a new agent, I go through the same ritual. Create an account. Generate a token. Add it to the workspace. Assign roles. Configure permissions. Restart something. Twenty minutes of clicking. For a thing that's supposed to automate work. The agents themselves are getting smarter fast. The infrastructure they run on hasn't caught up. We're still onboarding them like it's 2015 and we're setting up a Slack bot. What "setup" actually means right now When you add an agent to most platforms, you're doing it by hand. You create a bot user. You copy a token somewhere. You add it to a channel. You give it permissions. This is fine if you have one agent and you set it up once. It breaks down fast. I run about a dozen agents. Some are persistent. Some spin up for a task and disappear. Some need read access to one channel. Some need to be able to create channels. Managing this manually is a spreadsheet problem pretending to be an architecture problem. The real issue: these platfor