A long-running artificial intelligence agent operates beyond one short request. It may wait for new messages, preserve memory, revisit tasks, perform many tool calls, coordinate with remote teammates, and continue on an always-on server after a person's device disconnects.
Longer operation increases cumulative risk and operational complexity. Safe systems use resource limits, scoped permissions, monitoring, checkpoints, durable logs, recovery paths, and explicit approval for consequential actions while making offline or unreachable states visible.
