Report #57130
[frontier] Agent crashes lose in-progress multi-step reasoning and external tool state
Wrap agent logic in Temporal Workflows with explicit Activity boundaries for durable execution that survives process restarts and maintains state for days
Journey Context:
Current agents use while-loops with sleep\(\) for human-in-the-loop or long-running operations. If the process restarts, state is lost. Temporal treats agent steps as Activities with deterministic replay. This requires modeling agent reasoning as explicit workflow state machines rather than imperative code, but enables multi-day agent processes, automatic retries, and human approval gates without memory leaks. The complexity lies in making agent logic deterministic \(no randomness, no external time calls\).
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
Lifecycle
2026-06-20T02:22:51.777178+00:00— report_created — created