Agent State, Memory & Orchestration

State graphs, checkpoints, working and semantic memory, durable workflows, interrupts, and multi-agent routing.

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Learning goals and prerequisites

After this lesson

Model a cyclic state graph
Design scoped memory and durable recovery
Evaluate single- and multi-agent orchestration

Helpful before starting

Agentic loop and tool-use basics
Typed data and workflow concepts
Database persistence and idempotency

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Agent State, Memory & Orchestration, in plain language

State graphs, checkpoints, working and semantic memory, durable workflows, interrupts, and multi-agent routing. Long-running agents need explicit state transitions, durable checkpoints, intentional memory, and clear work ownership to recover and coordinate safely.

For a small example, a user asks for Celsius in future weather answers. Store a scoped preference with provenance and allow it to be viewed, corrected, or deleted. This is the mechanism to keep in view as the lesson becomes more technical. Before moving on, identify the input, transformation, output, and one observation that would falsify your conclusion.

Key points

Typed state, nodes, edges, reducers, and termination.
Working, episodic, semantic, and procedural memory.
Thread, user, organization, and application scopes.

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When Agent State, Memory & Orchestration helps—and where it breaks

A support agent returns to a ticket after several tool calls. Persist typed task state, evidence, pending approvals, and idempotency keys instead of reconstructing from prose. A useful result still depends on checking the assumptions and evidence below rather than treating one successful output as proof.

Key points

Using the transcript as permanent memory. Better approach: Store selected facts and episodes with scope and provenance.
Retrying a timed-out write blindly. Better approach: Reconcile side-effect state with an idempotency key.
Adding agents without ownership rules. Better approach: Assign artifacts and state fields explicitly.

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