Persistent Agent — Page 3

Context engineering, not prompt writing, decides how well agents actually perform at scale.

Preserving agent progress between sessions requires storing minimal state outside the model.

Strong consistency doesn't cover concurrent writes, replication lag.

Async replication creates windows where reads return stale data before replicas catch up.

Distributed checkpoints create silent data corruption risks when partial writes go undetected.

Cloud filesystems silently lose data when fsync errors go undetected and unreported.

Concurrent writes on shared filesystems corrupt data silently and systematically.

Hard links and symlinks can't work on object storage without an inode table.

How object storage systems fake sparse files without native support for holes.