arxivcs.MAcs.AI2026-06-29
Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents
Tianyu Ding, Aditya Nannapaneni, Bingfan Liu, Ling Zhang
Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: the operative system includes retrievable memories, but also task ledgers, permissions, credentials, commitments, proven…