Are agents supervised?

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defmodule App.Agent do
  use Agent

  def start do
    Agent.start_link(fn -> %{} end, name: __MODULE__)
  end
end

Using the above, is there any supervision over that agent? How should I approach Agent supervision?

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Hi @NaN, the function you show simply starts an agent linked to the current process. If you add that App.Agent to a supervisor’s child list, then the supervisor will start it and supervise it. I’d read through this guide here on the official site to get started Introduction to Mix - The Elixir programming language

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The Agent docs have a section addressing your exact question: Agent: How to supervise.