In this article, you will learn how an agent’s approach to managing state — stateless or stateful — shapes both its implementation and the deployment architecture built around it.

Topics we will cover include:

What separates stateless from stateful agents, and the tradeoffs each design imposes on scaling.

How to implement a stateless agent that depends entirely on the client to supply conversation history.

How to implement a stateful agent that manages its own memory through a database layer.