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Checkpointing
Saving an agent's full run state (current step, tool results so far, pending approvals) after every step so the run can resume from the last good step after a crash, instead of restarting. The foundation of durable execution.
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All matching postsDurable Execution for Agents: Checkpointing, Resume, and Human-in-the-Loop
A five-step agent that crashes at step four should resume at step four, not start over. Here is what durable execution means for agents, two ways to get it (graph checkpointing and workflow engines), and why a human approval should be a saved state rather than a blocking prompt.
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