Instruction: Describe how you would let an agent resume safely after interruption or partial completion.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would let an agent resume safely after interruption or partial completion.
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I would design the agent around checkpointed workflow state and idempotent action identifiers. Every side-effecting step should have a durable record of whether it was proposed, approved, attempted, committed, or left in an uncertain state.
On resume, the orchestrator should inspect that state before...
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