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id: "framework-session-recovery"
type: "framework"
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tags: ["state-management", "reliability"]
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# Agentic Session Recovery Process

## Purpose
The sequence of actions required to **perfectly reconstruct an agent's state** after a crash or interruption. Embodies the principle [[quote-good-engineering-failure|"Good engineering assumes a failure path and plans for it."]]

## Steps

1. **Detect** an interruption or crash in the agent's execution.
2. **Trigger** the resume session function.
3. **Load** the persisted JSON state file containing session ID, messages, metrics, and permissions.
4. **Reconstruct** the full conversational transcript from the stored state.
5. **Restore** token usage counters and permission states.
6. **Re-instantiate** the agentic engine to its exact pre-crash state.

## Underlying Concepts
- [[concept-complete-session-persistence]] — what gets persisted.
- [[concept-workflow-state-separation]] — why conversation alone is insufficient; workflow state must also be restored.

## Critical Note
Reconstructing the conversation (Step 4) without also restoring **workflow state** risks duplicate destructive actions on resume. The framework as described here covers conversation recovery; production teams must also restore workflow state per [[concept-workflow-state-separation]].

## Validation (Enrichment)
Standard pattern. Redis-based and JSON-dump-based crash recovery is widely used across production agent frameworks.