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7/6/2026
The original title is quite long and technical. Let me rewrite it to be punchy while preserving key facts.

The original title is quite long and technical. Let me rewrite it to be punchy while preserving key facts.

Original: Why Your Production Agents Can't Forget: Memory Decay, Recovery Patterns, and Long-Horizon Reliability

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Production agents fail predictably after week two due to infrastructure crashes, not model limits. Durable recovery requires session state in persistent storage, step-level checkpointing, and exact-point resumption—capabilities most frameworks lack but control planes provide. Agents making money in 2026 evaluate platforms on whether pod crashes restart the entire task or resume at the failed step.

  • •Month-two reliability wall: agents crash on infrastructure failures (pod restart, deployment, provider timeout) and lose session state
  • •Control plane solution: durable session storage plus step-level checkpoints enable transparent recovery at the exact failed step without restart
  • •Evaluation framework: ask platforms whether they survive pod crashes without restart, persist state across infrastructure changes, and provide audit trails

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