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multi turn state management

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System tracks state across attempts and learns from failures, maintaining context of what worked across multiple exploration iterations

@dbreunig: With a few exceptions, successful agents become workflows.

Agents require robust multi-turn state; workflows often work with single-turn or scripted sequences. This observation suggests the industry is moving toward simpler state models in practice.

System tracks state across attempts and learns from failures, maintaining context of what worked across multiple exploration iterations

Author describes agentic workflows as requiring constant refinement and decision-making across steps—this is multi-turn state management. The failure modes (agents failing without human oversight) sug

Agent reasoning across query construction → filtering → reranking → citation synthesis implies state persistence across reasoning steps; legal domain demands precision across multi-step reasoning.

Agents require robust multi-turn state; workflows often work with single-turn or scripted sequences. This observation suggests the industry is moving toward simpler state models in practice.

The ability to 'quickly reorganize modules while keeping robust tests running' implies agents maintain state/context across refactoring cycles

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