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Long-horizon agents: continuation, recovery, and limits

Long-horizon agents combine durable goals, schedules, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and crash recovery to work across minutes, hours, or days. Prime Agent implements these through daemon-backed session trees, JSONL persistence, and kernel snapshots. Bounded budgets and gates are guardrails, not guarantees of completion.

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Continuation mechanisms

Long-horizon agents combine durable goals, schedules, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and crash recovery to work across minutes, hours, or days. Prime Agent implements these through daemon-backed session trees, JSONL persistence, and kernel snapshots. Bounded budgets and gates are guardrails, not guarantees of completion.

  • S010 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S011 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S001 supports the route's current claim set.

Daemon recovery

Long-horizon agents combine durable goals, schedules, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and crash recovery to work across minutes, hours, or days. Prime Agent implements these through daemon-backed session trees, JSONL persistence, and kernel snapshots. Bounded budgets and gates are guardrails, not guarantees of completion.

  • S010 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S011 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S001 supports the route's current claim set.

Autonomy and budgets

Long-horizon agents combine durable goals, schedules, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and crash recovery to work across minutes, hours, or days. Prime Agent implements these through daemon-backed session trees, JSONL persistence, and kernel snapshots. Bounded budgets and gates are guardrails, not guarantees of completion.

  • S010 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S011 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S001 supports the route's current claim set.

Safety limits

Long-horizon agents combine durable goals, schedules, heartbeats, autonomous continuations, and crash recovery to work across minutes, hours, or days. Prime Agent implements these through daemon-backed session trees, JSONL persistence, and kernel snapshots. Bounded budgets and gates are guardrails, not guarantees of completion.

  • S010 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S011 supports the route's current claim set.
  • S001 supports the route's current claim set.