A five-step framework for always-on agents: persist, identity, authorize, curate, govern
With OpenAI making Dots the headline of DevDay, the piece breaks always-on agents into five steps, arguing the point is not 24/7 uptime but whether the agent inherits yesterday's state.
OpenAI just made dots the headline of DevDay, and this survey came out earlier and already explained why the hype misreads the point: Persist -> Identity -> Authorize -> Curate -> Govern here is the 5-step read on an always-on agent: > persist: an agent becomes always-on not by running 24/7 but when durable state survives a session and shapes a future action > identity: the same instance is recoverable after restart and accountable for what it did yesterday, or it is just a fresh agent each time > authorize: accumulated state can authorize a future action on its own, without your prompt in that moment > curate: a long-context model only consumes context, an always-on agent curates it, writes and prunes, or stale info poisons retrieval > govern: ambient and wearable agents realize the premise most fully, the agent literally never resets and decides when to step in the key insight: 24/7 uptime is not the definition, the line is where the agent inherits what it wrote yesterday. anti-takeaway for anyone buying the dots hype: an episodic agent that resets between tasks is not always-on, even if it is technically online around the clock. read this, then check the article below
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