Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from request-response assistants into long-running software actors: they maintain state across model calls, fork subtasks, wait for external events, request human authority, generate tools, and perform side effects that must be resumed and audited. This paper presents Agent libOS, a library-OS-inspired runtime substrate for LLM agents.
arXiv:2606. 03895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming long-running software actors rather than fixed tool users.
By Yingqi Zhang
arXiv:2608. 13574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate as execution systems that invoke tools, modify local state, use persistent memory, and interact with external protocols.
By Bo Jin, Qiang Jiao, Xin Tong
arXiv:2606. 01508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional operating systems were designed around deterministic programs, explicit control flow, and human initiated workflows.
By Ankur Sharma, Deep Shah
arXiv:2604. 14228v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that can run shell commands, edit files, and call external services on behalf of the user.
By Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Xinyi Shang, Zhiqiang Shen
Traditional operating systems were designed around deterministic programs, explicit control flow, and human initiated workflows. Their core abstractions processes, threads, system calls, files, and permissions assume bounded behavior and predictable interaction patterns.
arXiv:2606. 24311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are applied to longer tasks, they increasingly modify workspace state across multiple rounds of iteration.
By Kailong Ren, Fubo Sun, Jiachen Liu, Liu Yang, Zimo Yin, Jiaying Li, Congli Yin, Ming He, Yu Huo, Jiawei Liu, Zeping Chen, Yubin Huangfu, Ronghua Li, Yixuan Wu, Xing Su, Yanzhi Xu, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xiaohui Geng, Jianping Fan
arXiv:2608. 03214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have transformed artificial intelligence from isolated prediction services into components of long-running, distributed systems that reason, invoke tools, retrieve external state, delegate tasks, and act on behalf of users and organizations.
By Ankur Sharma, Deep Shah
arXiv:2602. 09345v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in multi-tenant cloud environments, where they execute diverse tool calls within sandboxed containers, each call with distinct resource demands and rapid fluctuations.
By Yusheng Zheng, Jiakun Fan, Quanzhi Fu, Yiwei Yang, Wei Zhang, Andi Quinn
arXiv:2607. 20488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM frameworks typically fix their team topology at boot time.
By Bronislav Sidik, Chaya Levi, Nizzan Kimhi
Multi-turn LLM agents interleave model calls with external tool invocations, shifting serving from stateless request processing to stateful program execution. Serving these workloads requires scheduling, KV-cache management, and routing policies that use program-level context, including turn dependencies, tool-induced gaps, and reusable KV state.
arXiv:2606. 00288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are undergoing a transition from model technology to system technology.
By Hai Lin