When Agent Workflows Run for Hours: Designing for Failure, Recovery, and Inspection
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A five-minute agent demo can assume that the process stays alive, the network cooperates, and every tool returns a clear result. A five-hour workflow cannot. Long-running agents wait on external APIs, process large files, call models repeatedly, trigger side effects, and sometimes pause for a human…
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- 2026-08-26 14:59 · DEV Community — AI
When Agent Workflows Run for Hours: Designing for Failure, Recovery, and Inspection