[Bug] "Error: Daemon reconnection failed: An incompatible Prime Agent daemon is running."

[alvinycheung]

Affected area

Coding agent and CLI

What happened?

I've run into this 6 times today :/

The daemon opens its socket before it finishes recovering workers. Clients wait only two seconds for the hello message. If recovery takes longer, they falsely label the current daemon “incompatible” and several UIs race to replace it. They all crash.

Steps to reproduce

Run hundreds of agents, it happens every time.

Expected behavior

It shouldn't crash out like this, every single prime agent ends up getting stuck in this mode and I have to restart everything.

Prime Agent version

v0.8.1

Environment

iTerm

Additional context

No response

[snimu]

Addressed by #1929