Electric Agents launches durable agent runtime

The core idea is strong: agents behave more like durable entities than ephemeral prompts, which makes collaboration, replay, and handoff first-class instead of bolted on.

• –Durable streams solve a real pain point in agent UX: sessions can survive restarts, be observed live, and be forked without losing history
• –The entity model collapses chat, inbox, human-in-the-loop, and RPC into one abstraction, which should reduce orchestration glue
• –The runtime looks aimed at teams building serious agent systems, not hobbyist wrappers around a single LLM call
• –The tradeoff is complexity: this is a pretty opinionated architecture, so it will fit best where long-lived state and multi-user coordination matter
• –Open source Apache 2.0 packaging helps adoption, especially for devs who want to inspect the primitives before betting on the platform