When Agent Chains Run for Hours: Why Checkpointing Is the Real Challenge
Today's GitHub Trending tells an interesting story. morluto/rea uses agent chains to reverse engineer anything "from app behavior down to native binaries." boykopovar/AnyPS5 automates PS5 executable porting to Linux and Windows. Both are impressive — and both represent a class of problems that few people are talking about: long-running, multi-step agent workflows. When your agent chain runs for hours across dozens of steps, the real enemy isn't model capability. It's what happens when step 7 of…