Glossary

Long-running Workflow

A workflow designed to execute tasks that may continue for extended periods, often across asynchronous steps, interruptions, or persistent state.

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Related terms

Stateful Workflow

A process execution pattern that persists progress, context, and variables across steps to support long-running operations and recovery.

Agent Workflow

A structured sequence of tasks, decisions, and tool interactions that an AI agent follows to achieve a specific goal or complete a process.

Task Execution

The process where an AI agent or system carries out a defined action, operation, or scheduled instruction.

Checkpointing

The practice of saving an execution state at defined points so a task or workflow can resume from the last checkpoint after interruption or failure.

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