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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 17, 2026

How I keep agents running for days without them forgetting what they were doing

A practitioner shares their full loop for multi-day agent runs: before the context window fills, the agent writes its state to a checkpoint file (current work, done, next), marks uncertain items as Unknown instead of guessing, and a fresh session reads it back — with live state always winning over the checkpoint on conflicts. Commenters suggest making checkpoints diffs rather than snapshots for faster state recovery.

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