Is Agent Continuity About Preserving State or Coherent Trajectories?

National_Actuator_89 · reddit · 2026-08-19

The author proposes a shift in viewing long-running agent continuity: from preserving state (memory/context) to maintaining coherence through change. Once an agent acts on the world, restoring a past state doesn't restore continuity. Recovery and repair are integral parts of continuity. In multi-agent interactions, continuity may exist in the trajectory of state transitions, raising questions about identity at what point a repaired trajectory becomes a new system.

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