Recoverability Proposed as a System Primitive for Long-Horizon AI Agents
A new arXiv paper argues that long-running AI agents interrupted mid-task need a built-in notion of recoverability, since restarting wastes effort while resuming from unverified state can propagate earlier mistakes. The authors frame saved state alone as insufficient and propose treating recovery as a core system-level capability rather than an afterthought. The work is a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.