Stateful agent — Stateful Agent

Fact

An Agent that saves past state and uses it in later steps.

In Plain Words

A Stateful Agent is the teammate who does not forget after lunch. It keeps the sticky note and starts on the right page.

You meet it in long chats and multi-step jobs. It can keep going, but its notes must stay tidy.

Related Concepts

• AI Agent
• Context Window
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Function-calling

Agent
A Stateful Agent is an Agent that remembers history and progress.

Context-window
It can save some information in state, so the Context-window feels less crowded.

RAG
When its own state is missing facts, RAG can fetch them.

Function-calling
After it remembers progress, it can use Function-call across many steps.