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Design Agent Workflow Memory Management

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You are building a long running agentic workflow platform that plans, calls tools, retrieves documents, and resumes work across sessions. The system needs to keep useful context over time without letting memory grow unchecked or degrade response quality.

Question

How do you manage state and memory in long-running agentic workflows?