Managed Agent Runtime
Consume the agent loop itself as a managed cloud primitive — supply model, system prompt, and tools; the platform handles orchestration, isolation, identity, and observability.
Intent & Description
🎯 Intent
Offer the agent loop itself as a managed cloud primitive so a caller supplies a model, system prompt, and tools and the platform handles orchestration in an isolated, session-scoped runtime.
📋 Context
Every team building agents hand-rolls the same loop: reason-act cycle, tool dispatch, session state, per-session isolation, identity for outbound calls, retries, observability. Each loop drifts, each carries its own on-call burden, and the cloud now offers the loop as a consumable service.
💡 Solution
The platform exposes a single invoke endpoint taking a model reference, system prompt, and tool set, then runs the full reason-act loop on the caller’s behalf. Each session executes inside its own isolated sandbox (typically a microVM with filesystem and shell access) so concurrent sessions never share state. The runtime wires in managed memory for short- and long-term context, a managed identity service that mints scoped credentials for outbound tool calls, and observability that emits a uniform trace of every step.
Real-world Use Case
- Several teams are each rebuilding and operating the same agent loop independently.
- Per-session isolation, identity, and tracing must be uniform across all agent products.
- A cloud runtime exposing the loop with session-scoped sandboxes is available.
Source
📌 TL;DR
Stop hand-rolling the same agent loop across every team — consume it as a managed cloud primitive and let the platform own isolation, identity, and observability.
Advantages
- Teams stop rebuilding and operating the same loop — orchestration becomes a consumed primitive.
- Session-scoped sandboxing makes cross-session state leaks structurally hard.
- Identity, memory, and tracing are uniform across every agent product on the platform.
Disadvantages
- The agent loop’s behavior and operations are tied to a vendor contract and pricing model.
- Per-session sandbox provisioning adds cold-start latency that a long-lived in-process loop avoids.
- Custom orchestration the managed loop doesn’t expose is hard or impossible to inject.