resume: true carries on from its file and does not repeat a finished
step, with nothing to install and no server running. Temporal answers a
bigger question: it replays an event history on a service you run or rent
and keeps multi-day work alive across many workers and machines. If that
is your problem, you need Temporal or something like it. If your problem
is a team of coding agents on your laptop that should not start the week
again after a crash, you don’t.
In Obversa
The record is an event store and an artifact store with a written policy. Reading a run back is folding its events, and nothing else:examples/durable-storage.ts (excerpt)
Agent harness
An agent harness is the software around one model that makes it an agent: its loop, tools and memory. Claude Code and Codex are harnesses, and the workflow inside one dies with its session. Durability here is about the run across those harnesses, not inside one. What is an agent harness? has the term.Next steps
- Obversa and Temporal: what each is for, and where each wins.
- The record: the event log as the single source of truth.