Durable Execution
4 essays tagged with Durable Execution.
Upgrading an Agent That Is Still Running
A worked migration procedure for unfinished agent runs: preserve proposal meaning, recheck current authority, fence stale workers, migrate exact approval bindings, and reconcile uncertain effects before dispatch.
Why Not Just Use a Database Transaction for Agent Refunds?
A row lock wins the race between two agents. It cannot see a refund that applied at the provider after a timeout, or a limit that spans two systems.
Inside ContextOS: Shared Business Limits for AI Agents
The first public ContextOS runtime deep dive: a deterministic Rust kernel, atomic business exposure across agent runs, governed tool dispatch, conservative recovery, signed evidence and Tower.
What Production Agent Runtimes Actually Teach ContextOS: Twelve Laws of a Governed Harness
The strongest production agent runtimes converge on twelve architectural laws: compile context, persist state, separate authority from containment, make side effects resumable, treat approvals as typed interrupts, and promote learning only through evidence and replay.