Tools, state and asynchronous actions
Conversation can move on before an action finishes; identity and state prevent stale results from being applied.
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The ideas to retain
A tool call is not the external effect
Separate at least four events:
Separate four kinds of state
Calling everything “context” hides important failure modes. A realtime agent normally has at least these layers:
The minimum action contract
Before a mutating tool runs, define a stable identity and an explicit policy:
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