Stateful vs. Stateless Search in Long-Running Agent Sessions
Preserve agent context through stateful orchestration, not stateless replay.
Linh Phuong Dao
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7 stories in Agent Search.
Preserve agent context through stateful orchestration, not stateless replay.
Live search beats static indexing for agents that need current, citable answers.
AI agents need search APIs built for machines, not browsers.
Architectural patterns determine whether search-grounded agents retrieve and reason reliably.
Iterative verification catches errors that single-pass research agents miss.
Retrieval layers now separate production systems from hallucinations about current events.
LlamaIndex handles retrieval, LangGraph handles orchestration, each needs different search APIs.