Agent Orchestration Shifts from "Can Run" to "Can Run to Completion"

Agent orchestration is moving from "can run" to "can run to completion." Google Ax standardizes scheduling, Codebase-Memory MCP persists context, and Anthropic Financial Services defines long-running scenarios — but workflow state is the missing layer, and Astron-Agent addresses it with state persistence and checkpoint recovery so a run can resume from the step that failed.