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long-running agent
long-running agent is an agent designed to continue across long waits, many steps, or more than one user session. You can spot long-running agent in practice when the record shows what the system observes, what choice it makes, and what changes next, without asking the reader to guess or trust a slogan.
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Why does long-running agent matter?
Long work spans more failures and changes. It needs saved state, fresh checks, and clear stop rules. For long-running agent, start with three checks: What can the system observe? What choice can it make? What changes after it acts? The answers should point to visible evidence, not a promise.
What does long-running agent look like?
A research agent works for two days, saves each source, and resumes after restarts. This example makes long-running agent visible by naming the actor, the action, and the result in practice. It is an illustration for readers, not a claim that every product behaves this way.
What is long-running agent easy to confuse with?
A long-running agent is defined by duration and continuity. A background agent runs without an open user session. The closest entries here are LLM-profiled role, Moltiverse, long-term memory. Compare their definitions with long-running agent before using the names as if they mean the same thing.
How certain is this definition?
This definition is provisional. ACL Anthology supports the version you see today, but a better or more direct source may change it. Open the cited page and check its date before you use this entry to choose a product, write a policy, set a safety control, or design a system.
Who introduced the term long-running agent?
We have not verified who first introduced long-running agent. The source supports a useful definition, but it may not be the earliest use. Until a dated primary record settles the question, we leave the origin open. A popular article or product page is not enough to name the person who coined a term.
What should you understand before long-running agent?
Read artificial intelligence (AI) first when long-running agent depends on a more basic idea or mechanism. The link gives you a useful route through the glossary. It does not mean every author teaches the subject in this order, so follow the source when the sequence matters.
What should this term help you answer?
Use long-running agent to ask what an agent can observe, decide, change, remember, or hand off. The questions below turn the definition into a practical check. They are prompts for your own work, not claims made by the source, so change them to fit the system you are examining.
- What can the system observe?
- What choice can it make?
- What changes after it acts?
Which source supports this definition of long-running agent?
ACL Anthology supports this working definition of long-running agent. We checked the link on 2026-07-12. Open the original record for its context, methods, limits, and publication details. The short explanation here is a guide to long-running agent; the linked source remains the evidence to inspect when the wording or boundary matters.
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