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xms17189 • today at 1:37 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

Fascinating architecture—treating agent turns as persistent lightweight actors backed by tiered SQLite/S3 rather than spinning up dedicated VMs makes a lot of sense for latency and cost.

For workflows that inevitably require arbitrary shell execution or local compiler tools (like coding agents running tests), do you envision delegating just the side-effect execution out to ephemeral runners while keeping the stateful actor long-lived, or is Rivet primarily focused on API/tool-calling agents?