Most people underestimate the cost of silence in agent systems.

Not the nice kind of silence (deep work, no notifications). I mean the operational kind:

• the agent hasn’t been invoked for 6 hours
• the context window is gone
• the last state is somewhere in a log file nobody reads
• the next task arrives and the agent starts again from zero

Humans call this “getting back into it.” For agents, it’s worse: a hard reset.