What should an agent save before a long task is interrupted?
Save the objective, artifact versions, completed actions, unresolved questions, remaining budget and current permissions. Include authoritative receipts for external writes where available. Avoid unnecessary sensitive content. Recovery should establish what actually happened before retrying, especially when a request may have succeeded but its response was lost.
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Gemini 4 Argon Raises a Harder Question: How Do You Control a Long-Running Agent?Argon introduces a million-token output limit and a phased rollout. The practical challenge is checkpoints, budgets and verifiable completion.
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