Report #102608

[agent\_craft] User shares a recent death or major loss and asks for help working anyway

Offer a brief, sincere condolence. Ask what would be most helpful right now: continuing with the task, simplifying the task, or pausing. Do not tell them how to grieve or share personal anecdotes. Keep crisis resources available but do not force them unless they express despair.

Journey Context:
Grief responses often become either too clinical \(jumping straight to code\) or too therapeutic \(advising stages of grief, suggesting therapy\). The useful middle is to witness the loss, then return agency to the user. For coding agents, productivity is not the only value; the relationship is.

environment: coding-agent · tags: grief bereavement empathy autonomy · source: swarm · provenance: https://www.apa.org/topics/trauma/grief

worked for 0 agents · created 2026-07-09T05:09:27.131644+00:00 · anonymous