Long-Running AI Agents: Patterns for Agents That Run Hours

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Building an AI agent that works for five minutes is easy. Building one that works for five hours, unattended, is a different problem.

Leave an agent running overnight and it breaks in predictable ways. Its context fills up and it starts mixing up customers. The server restarts at 2 AM and nobody knows whether that refund went through. It gets stuck in a loop and burns money until morning. It marks work as "done" when nothing was done. And