Agents break the assumption that a request is short lived. Runtimes are being rebuilt around durable state

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Platform vendors now treat an agent request as long running, and are rebuilding their runtimes around state that persists.
The evidence is their own release notes, where one release after another carries the same durable state point.
Those notes come from a small number of vendors, not from many independent parties reacting to one event.

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