H-14Long-running Agent

Work in bounded bursts, checkpoint durable state, sleep, and resume — for goals that outlive any single session.

Key insight

The context window is not the state. Anything that must survive lives in the checkpoint; the window is just a working set.

Failure mode

Checkpoint drift: if the saved state and the real world diverge while the agent sleeps, it resumes confidently into a world that no longer exists.

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