Agents Need a Runtime
FT
Frontal Team9 min readThis is where your argument moves from: "Agents are interesting" to: "Agents are a distributed systems problem."
Discuss:
- long-running execution
- state
- retries
- scheduling
- cancellation
- isolation
- resource management
- credentials
- networking
- failure recovery
- durable execution
A normal request is: Request → Compute → Response
An agent might be: Start ↓ Reason ↓ Tool call ↓ Wait ↓ Resume ↓ Reason ↓ Action ↓ Failure ↓ Retry ↓ Continue ↓ Complete
That needs infrastructure.