Runtime
The layer agents run on: sessions, turns, recovery and compaction.
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A browser that writes down the form instead of sending it
An agent-first browser engine runs a click the way page code expects, then records a form submission and stops, leaving network access, protocol transport, threads and session state with the application that embeds it.
BrowsersAgent systemsRuntimeArchitecture
Keeping a coordinator responsive while its workers are busy
When a coordinator shares a process with its workers, load and every recovery action land on both. How the deciding agent was separated from the process that holds the tree, sandboxes and workers, what the relay between them costs.
SelectedAgent systemsOrchestrationArchitectureRuntime
Keeping long agent turns steerable and within their context budget
A steer could wait 40 minutes behind a foreground command, and a rule meant to spare people from summaries let threads overflow. Bounded yields and a budget judged on the request actually sent address both.
Agent systemsRuntimeContextCompaction
Recovering a service deployment after its visible work has already happened
What a deployment controller has to do when a route has gone out and the catalog write fails: why a completed saga step can't be trusted on resume, how a retry recognises its own intent, and why cleanup is bound to the version it read.
RuntimeVerificationDeploymentReliability