5 Agent Design Patterns for Long-running AI Agents
Google Cloud presents five design patterns for building AI agents that run up to seven days: checkpoint-and-resume for state durability, delegated human-in-the-loop with zero-cost pausing, layered memory governance (Memory Bank, Profiles, Agent Identity/Registry/Gateway) against drift and leakage, ambient event-driven processing with externalized policies, and fleet orchestration using independently deployed specialists. Each pattern includes ADK code examples and diagrams, addressing production concerns like memory drift. Aimed at developers scaling agents from chatbots to autonomous workers.