Background Agents
Scoping Background Jobs, Recovery, Concurrency, and Review
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Tenten AI FDE Team
Forward Deployed Engineering
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Abstract
A background agent separates dispatch from execution. That can make a well-defined task easier to schedule, but the run still needs authority, budgets, recoverable state and an owner who can accept or reject the result. Decide which actions may proceed unattended and which require a decision.
Temporal’s Python error-handling guidance, consulted 2 October 2026, explains retry and external idempotency concerns. Anthropic’s 19 December 2024 agent-design guide recommends matching complexity to the task. This paper develops background-job contracts and review so the responsible person can distinguish accepted work, missing work and decisions still required.
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