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Pausing an agent mid-task and resuming it four minutes later, with its memory intact
Community description: DigitalOcean's Managed Agents claims a paused session keeps its processes and memory. I put a counter in a shell variable, paused for 4m28s, and it came back at 48. Forking was stranger.
Dev.to | Sep 29, 2026 | Remdore
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I ran the same check against the agent's own context rather than a shell variable. I forked the running parent twice, took 30. 98 seconds for both, and then checked the ticker process in all three sandboxes. Twice, and both times the same shape of mistake.
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