Stage 6: Long-Lived Autonomous Agents

Agents that persist for days to months, not minutes.

Task

Run agents that persist for days to months, maintaining state, memory, and goals across sessions and failures.

Why This Matters

Scientific campaigns unfold over weeks or months. Long-lived agents accumulate knowledge, adapt strategies, and pursue open-ended discovery—fundamentally different from stateless scripts or single-session tools.

Details

Aspect	Value
CAF Components	Lifecycle management, persistent state, failure recovery
Where it runs	Any (with durable storage)
Scale	Days to months of continuous operation
Status	Emerging

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│          Lifecycle Management           │
│                                         │
│ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────┐ │
│ │Checkpoint│ │ Recovery │ │ Oversight│ │
│ └────┬─────┘ └────┬─────┘ └────┬─────┘ │
│      └────────────┴────────────┘       │
│                    │                    │
└────────────────────┼────────────────────┘
                     │
              ┌──────▼──────┐
              │ Long-Lived  │
              │   Agent     │
              │             │
              │ ┌─────────┐ │
              │ │ Memory  │ │
              │ │ + Goals │ │
              │ └─────────┘ │
              └─────────────┘

Code

Coming soon

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