How ephemeral can the agents be?
Learn which roles should remain present and which should appear only in response to a specific event or failure.
Starting point
Should agents stay on, with the associated token churn, or be created only in response to events? A persistent Refinery Supervisor created too much churn, which led to a refinery system that requires an agent only when it is stuck.
What to track
- Startup cost versus idle context churn.
- Which events provide enough context to instantiate a role on demand.
- Whether durable state lets a short-lived agent behave coherently.
Living record
Experiments with singleton, scheduled, event-driven, and one-shot agents belong here.