https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sebastienburelHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:38:15 +0000The hard part for an always-on company agent is what survives a restart. My runtime snapshots the whole JS heap to bytes and restores it in a fresh process, so conversation and working state come back with no serialization code — but timers don't survive, so an agent re-arms them from declarative state after restore. How do you handle that? Is a long-lived agent's state checkpointed, or rebuilt by replaying context on each wake?

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