The part of AI agents that suddenly looks most important isn’t the model.
It’s the stuff around it.
OpenAI: long-running harness.
Google: snapshot idle agents.
UiPath: agent gateway.
Salesforce: agents that stay active for days/weeks.
Same direction, different layers.

ALT Diagram showing a model above an agent runtime with layers for state, execution, routing, permissions, observability, recovery, and cost control, plus a long-running agent timeline.