Statepoints let AI agents reverse mistakes and branch safely

Planarian coordinates local snapshots with compensating remote actions so agents can restore or fork their working environments.

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Jinnan Guo · Hao Mark Chen · Kapil Vaswani · Andrew Paverd · Peter Pietzuch

Imperial College London · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · SPARC · Microsoft Security Response Center

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Guo et al.

The authors developed Planarian, a runtime that adds three state-management primitives to existing agent workflows.

Why this paper

From Microsoft Security Response Center and 3 others

In one line

Planarian gives LLM agents snapshot, rollback, and fork primitives for consistent local and remote state, improving task quality by up to 15x.

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