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Not for a run on one machine. A recorded Obversa run started again with 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)
Every event is appended as it happens, and every artifact is stored by digest, so the state of a run is only ever rebuilt from what was written. Replaying a record never calls an engine.

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.

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