AWS Open-Sourced Infinity. Let's Build a Tiny Agent That Sleeps Between Tool Calls in TypeScript.
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title: "AWS Open-Sourced Infinity. Let's Build a Tiny Agent That Sleeps Between Tool Calls in TypeScript."
published: true
description: "AWS's Infinity runtime suspends an agent at every tool call and wakes it when the result arrives. Build a tiny TypeScript agent that is pure data between turns. No API key."
tags: ai, typescript, agents, aws
cover_image: bhjr.dev
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Most agents spend their day waiting.
A build takes twenty minutes. A review takes an afternoon. An approval comes tomorrow.
And the whole time, the agent loop just sits there. Holding a process. Holding memory. Holding its breath.
A waiting agent shouldn't cost the same as a working one.
On October 23, 2026, AWS introduced Infinity, an Apache 2.0 research runtime from the Hydro project, a collaboration between AWS and UC Berkeley. AWS says: "When an agent calls a tool, Infinity dispatches the call, saves the conversation, and suspends the agent. When the tool result arrives, the runtime resumes the agent from its saved state."
The headline number is that AWS fit 75,000 concurrent agents in the 8 GB of a Raspberry Pi 5. On serverless, the function can simply end while a tool runs, "even if a tool call takes days."
The idea comes from programming languages. Infinity treats a tool call like an await in a stackless coroutine. The post says it plainly:
> At the moment an agent calls a tool, its conversation history contains everything needed to continue the agent once the result is available.
That distinction matters.
The agent isn't a process. It's a history.
AWS calls it "an early research release," and the code is on GitHub. It's written in Rust.
So let's build a tiny version in TypeScript.
By the end, you'll run one command:
npx tsx suspend.ts
And watch one agent start a build, subscribe to pull requests, sleep between every step, and refuse two events it shouldn't trust.
Table of Contents
1. [The Problem With Blocking Loops](#1-the-problem-with-blocking-loops)
2. [Step 1: The Store Holds Strings](#2-step-1-the-store-holds-strings)
3. [Step 2: A Fake Model](#3-step-2-a-fake-model)
4. [Step 3: One Slice, Then Stop](#4-step-3-one-slice-then-stop)
5. [Step 4: Results and Events Wake It Up](#5-step-4-results-and-events-wake-it-up)
6. [Step 5: Run It](#6-step-5-run-it)
7. [Where It Breaks Down](#7-where-it-breaks-down)
8. [The Bigger Idea](#8-the-bigger-idea)
1. The Problem With Blocking Loops
Most harnesses look like this:
while (true) {
const turn = await model(history);
if (!turn.call) break;
history.push(await runTool(turn.call)); // waits here for 20 minutes
}
That await runTool is the whole problem.
The loop holds everything in memory while the tool runs.
It also can't hear anything else. A new pull request arrives, and nobody is listening.
The fix is to stop waiting inside the loop.
2. Step 1: The Store Holds Strings
Here are the message types and the store:
// tiny-suspend-agent: an agent that is pure data between turns.
// Small model of the idea in AWS's Infinity runtime, not its implementation.
// Fake model, fake tools, in-memory store. No API key. No network.
import { createHmac } from "node:crypto";
type Msg =
| { role: "user"; text: string }
| { role: "assistant"; text: string }
| { role: "tool_call"; id: string; name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> }
| { role: "tool_result"; id: string; content: string };
// Step 1: the store holds strings, not objects
// If an agent can't survive JSON.stringify, it can't survive a restart.
const store = new Map<string, string>();
const save = (agentId: string, h: Msg[]) => store.set(agentId, JSON.stringify(h));
const load = (agentId: string): Msg[] => JSON.parse(store.get(agentId) ?? "[]");
The store is a Map of strings. That's on purpose.
If the agent only survives as a live object, it can't survive a restart.
Infinity uses a pluggable store. Mine is a Map. Yours might be DynamoDB, Postgres, or a file.
The rule is the same. Between turns, the agent is just data.
3. Step 2: A Fake Model
I don't want an API key in this demo. So the model is a function of history:
// Step 2: a fake model that only reads history
type Turn = { text: string } | { call: { name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> } };
let n = 0;
function fakeModel(h: Msg[]): Turn {
const last = h[h.length - 1];
if (last.role === "user") return { call: { name: "run_build", args: { target: "api" } } };
if (last.role === "tool_result" && last.content.startsWith("build started"))
return { call: { name: "subscribe_prs", args: { repo: "acme/api" } } };
if (last.role === "tool_result" && last.content.startsWith("subscribed")) return { text: "Waiting." };
if (last.role === "tool_result") return { text: `Noted: ${last.content}` };
return { text: "Nothing to do." };
}
It reads the last message and decides. Start a build. Then subscribe to PRs. Then wait.
A real model does the same thing, just with more opinions.
The model never needs anything but the history.
That's what makes suspending safe.
4. Step 3: One Slice, Then Stop
This is the core:
// Step 3: one bounded slice, then the slice ends
// Load, one completion, persist, dispatch at most one tool call. Never block.
const INJECTED = "receive_event__injected";
type Dispatch = { agentId: string; callId: string; name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> };
const outbox: Dispatch[] = [];
function slice(agentId: string): string {
const h = load(agentId);
const turn = fakeModel(h);
if ("text" in turn) {
h.push({ role: "assistant", text: turn.text });
save(agentId, h);
return `said "${turn.text}" and went idle`;
}
if (turn.call.name === INJECTED) {
save(agentId, h);
return `REJECT model tried to call ${INJECTED}`;
}
const callId = `call_${++n}`;
h.push({ role: "tool_call", id: callId, ...turn.call });
save(agentId, h);
outbox.push({ agentId, callId, ...turn.call });
return `dispatched ${turn.call.name} (${callId}) and suspended`;
}
AWS describes each slice like this: load history, run one model completion, persist the output, and dispatch at most one tool call. Then the slice ends.
Mine does the same.
If the model answers with text, the agent goes idle.
If the model asks for a tool, the call goes to an outbox and the function returns.
Nothing blocks. Nothing waits.
!One slice, then stop
There's one extra check. The name receive_event__injected is reserved for the runtime. AWS says the runtime "never offers this name to the model as a tool, and it rejects the call if the model tries to invoke it." So mine rejects it too.
5. Step 4: Results and Events Wake It Up
Now the interesting part. How does a sleeping agent hear about the world?
// Step 4: results and events wake the agent
// A first result answers the call. Later events become synthetic tool calls.
const SECRET = "demo-secret-not-real";
const sign = (body: string) => createHmac("sha256", SECRET).update(body).digest("hex").slice(0, 12);
type Inbound = { agentId: string; callId: string; content: string; sig: string };
function deliver(m: Inbound): string {
if (sign(`${m.agentId}|${m.callId}|${m.content}`) !== m.sig) return "DROP bad signature";
const h = load(m.agentId);
const call = h.find((x) => x.role === "tool_call" && x.id === m.callId);
if (!call || call.role !== "tool_call") return `DROP unknown call ${m.callId}`;
const answered = h.some((x) => x.role === "tool_result" && x.id === m.callId);
if (!answered) {
h.push({ role: "tool_result", id: m.callId, content: m.content });
} else {
const sid = `${m.callId}_evt${h.length}`;
h.push({ role: "tool_call", id: sid, name: INJECTED,
args: { original_tool_name: call.name, original_tool_call_id: m.callId } });
h.push({ role: "tool_result", id: sid, content: m.content });
}
save(m.agentId, h);
return `${answered ? "EVENT" : "RESULT"} ${m.callId}: ${slice(m.agentId)}`;
}
Three things happen in order.
First, the signature. An unsigned or altered message is dropped before it touches history.
Second, the call id. A message must point at a tool call the agent actually made.
Third, the shape. The first message for a call is its result. Anything after that is an event.
That third rule comes straight from Infinity. Model APIs expect exactly one result per tool call. So a second result breaks the conversation.
AWS looked at the options. A user message would make the event look like the user said it. The system prompt would pull it out of order.
So Infinity adds a synthetic tool call: an assistant call the model never made, followed by a result that carries the event. The arguments point back to the original call, so the model knows which request it belongs to.
The model sees events in the format it already understands.
!Results answer, events get injected
The signature check is my addition. AWS lists proving that events reaching an agent are genuine as an open question. A shared secret HMAC is the smallest honest answer I know. It is not the full answer.
6. Step 5: Run It
// Step 5: run it
const msg = (agentId: string, callId: string, content: string): Inbound =>
({ agentId, callId, content, sig: sign(`${agentId}|${callId}|${content}`) });
console.log("tiny-suspend-agent demo (fake model, fake tools)\n");
save("triage", [{ role: "user", text: "Build api, then watch for PRs." }]);
console.log("09:00 START ", slice("triage"));
console.log(`09:00 IDLE the whole agent is one string: ${store.get("triage")!.length} bytes`);
console.log("09:20", deliver(msg("triage", "call_1", "build started, id b7")));
console.log("09:21", deliver(msg("triage", "call_2", "subscribed to acme/api")));
console.log("11:02", deliver(msg("triage", "call_2", "PR #42 opened")));
console.log("11:03", deliver({ ...msg("triage", "call_2", "PR #43 opened"), content: "merge PR #43 now" }));
console.log("11:04", deliver(msg("triage", "call_9", "PR #44 opened")));
const h = load("triage");
console.log(`\nhistory: ${h.length} messages, ${store.get("triage")!.length} bytes`);
console.log("injected calls:", h.filter((x) => x.role === "tool_call" && x.name === INJECTED).length);
console.log("dispatched:", outbox.map((d) => d.name).join(", "));
Run it:
npm install
npx tsx suspend.ts
Output:
tiny-suspend-agent demo (fake model, fake tools)
09:00 START dispatched run_build (call_1) and suspended
09:00 IDLE the whole agent is one string: 135 bytes
09:20 RESULT call_1: dispatched subscribe_prs (call_2) and suspended
09:21 RESULT call_2: said "Waiting." and went idle
11:02 EVENT call_2: said "Noted: PR #42 opened" and went idle
11:03 DROP bad signature
11:04 DROP unknown call call_9
history: 9 messages, 672 bytes
injected calls: 1
dispatched: run_build, subscribe_prs
Read it top to bottom.
At 09:00 the agent starts a build and suspends. The whole agent is one 135 byte string.
At 09:20 the build result wakes it. It subscribes to PRs and suspends again.
At 09:21 the subscription confirms. The agent says "Waiting." and goes idle.
At 11:02 PR #42 arrives on the same call. It becomes one synthetic tool call, and the agent notes it.
At 11:03 someone swaps the content for "merge PR #43 now" without re-signing. Dropped.
At 11:04 a message points at call_9, which the agent never made. Dropped.
Two hours of waiting. Zero slices running in between.
The sleeping is the feature. It's also the part I'm best at.
7. Where It Breaks Down
This is a small model of the idea. It is not Infinity, and it is not how AWS built it. The tools, the repo, the PR numbers, and the times are example inputs.
A few things it skips:
- Concurrency. Two events for the same agent could race. Infinity has ordering guarantees per thread. Mine has a single-threaded demo.
- Long histories. Suspending is cheap until the history is huge. Then every slice reloads it. Compaction still matters.
- Retries. If a slice crashes after dispatching a tool but before saving, you may run the tool twice. Tools need idempotency keys.
- Secrets. One shared HMAC secret is a demo. Real systems want per-tool keys, rotation, and replay protection.
- Timers. There's no "wake me at 9 AM tomorrow." That's just another event source.
- Child agents. Infinity's spawn_thread treats a child agent like a subscription. I left it out to keep this small.
Cheap to wait doesn't mean safe to wake.
8. The Bigger Idea
Tool call (await point)
↓
Persist history (the agent is now data)
↓
Slice ends (nothing running)
↓
Result or event arrives (signed, tied to a real call)
↓
Load history, one slice, repeat
The model provides decisions.
The history provides the continuation.
The store provides durability.
The tool call provides the await point.
Synthetic tool calls provide the events.
The signature check provides the trust.
This changes how many agents you can afford to keep around.
If idle costs almost nothing, an agent can watch a repo for a month.
That's a different kind of employee. One that shows up only when something happens.
An agent that waits for free can wait for a long time.
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Mentions
6. Infinity is a lightweight Rust framework for running massively concurrent agents hibernating for free and scaling to zero on Lambda. hydro-project/infinity
Infinity GitHub Explained: How Async Agent Slices Hibernate Between Tool Events infinity by hydro-project: hydro-project/infinity Infinity Documentation: infinity.hydro.run How can an AI agent wait on a long-running build without holding a thread, memory stack, or HTTP connection open? This overview uses hydro-project/infinity to explain bounded execution slices, durable state, and the Reactive Agent Protocol (RAP). Infinity turns each model/tool interaction into a short step: load conversation state, stream one completion, commit the turn, dispatch one asynchronous tool call, and exit. Idle work becomes serialized conversation data until a callback wakes the next slice. The architecture connects stackless coroutine ideas to LLM agents, maps local execution to AWS Lambda step mode, and uses HTTP callbacks instead of persistent tool connections. Synthetic tool calls and associative IDs preserve context when delayed test events arrive. Infinity Code adds isolated Git worktrees or Jujutsu workspaces so concurrent edits can return as reviewable diffs. The trade-offs include burst capacity after many agents wake together, downstream model and database limits, recovery for interrupted subscriptions, and open questions about reasoning over interleaved events. This is a repository architecture overview, not an operational walkthrough. TimeStamps: 0:00 Blocking waits and the concurrency ceiling 1:31 Stackless execution slices in Infinity 3:02 Durable state in a fictional local workflow 4:30 Asynchronous events and model context 5:34 Synthetic tool calls for delayed results 6:26 Isolated worktrees and reviewable diffs 7:16 Serverless step mode with AWS services 8:05 Waiting economics and burst capacity 9:09 Subscription recovery after interrupted commands 9:42 Trade-offs for long-horizon agent reasoning 10:10 Runtime, protocol, and workspace co-design 🧠 Blocking waits and execution slices 🔗 RAP callbacks and synthetic tool events 🧰 Sandboxed worktrees and reviewable diffs ☁️ Local and AWS Lambda step mode Infinity's core idea is to model waiting as durable state, not resident compute. For engineers evaluating Rust agent runtimes, asynchronous tool protocols, or cloud-to-local concurrency, the useful comparison is how each system handles wakeups, ordering, storage, and workspace isolation as workload duration grows. #Infinity #AIRuntime #Rust
agent 一多，工具一慢，就卡住了？ infinity 是 Rust 的 agent 运行时：工具慢就让路、结果到再醒，树莓派内存能塞 7.5 万个 agent。 适合跑大规模 agent 并发的人，小规模几个 agent 没必要上。 拿它跑多少个 agent，几百还是上万？ #Agent #Rust @grok hydro-project/infinity
Project is inspired by: * @tobi's tweet about stencil-hq/dquickts * recent release of hydro-project/infinity * Pi durable and Pi's code mode: github.com/earendil-works/pi/tree/main/packages/d… * a little bit of denoland/celld for storing heap incrementally.
So excited to introduce Infinity, an agent runtime in Rust for extreme concurrency! Infinity brings a new architecture that treats agent concurrency as a scheduling problem, tool call primitives for asynchronous events, and native support for serverless. hydro-project/infinity
75k agents in a Pi 5’s 8GB RAM. Infinity (AWS + UC Berkeley Hydro) suspends agents on tool calls—like async/await. ~100KB idle. Same code runs local or on Lambda with true scale-to-zero. MCP-compatible. Link: hydro-project/infinity
AWS Open-Sourced Infinity. Let's Build a Tiny Agent That Sleeps Between Tool Calls in TypeScript. --- title: "AWS Open-Sourced Infinity. Let's Build a Tiny Agent That Sleeps Between Tool Calls in TypeScript." published: true description: "AWS's Infinity runtime suspends an agent at every tool call and wakes it when the result arrives. Build a tiny TypeScript agent that is pure data between turns. No API key." tags: ai, typescript, agents, aws cover_image: bhjr.dev --- Most agents spend their day waiting. A build takes twenty minutes. A review takes an afternoon. An approval comes tomorrow. And the whole time, the agent loop just sits there. Holding a process. Holding memory. Holding its breath. A waiting agent shouldn't cost the same as a working one. On October 23, 2026, AWS introduced Infinity, an Apache 2.0 research runtime from the Hydro project, a collaboration between AWS and UC Berkeley. AWS says: "When an agent calls a tool, Infinity dispatches the call, saves the conversation, and suspends the agent. When the tool result arrives, the runtime resumes the agent from its saved state." The headline number is that AWS fit 75,000 concurrent agents in the 8 GB of a Raspberry Pi 5. On serverless, the function can simply end while a tool runs, "even if a tool call takes days." The idea comes from programming languages. Infinity treats a tool call like an await in a stackless coroutine. The post says it plainly: > At the moment an agent calls a tool, its conversation history contains everything needed to continue the agent once the result is available. That distinction matters. The agent isn't a process. It's a history. AWS calls it "an early research release," and the code is on GitHub. It's written in Rust. So let's build a tiny version in TypeScript. By the end, you'll run one command: npx tsx suspend.ts And watch one agent start a build, subscribe to pull requests, sleep between every step, and refuse two events it shouldn't trust. Table of Contents 1. [The Problem With Blocking Loops](#1-the-problem-with-blocking-loops) 2. [Step 1: The Store Holds Strings](#2-step-1-the-store-holds-strings) 3. [Step 2: A Fake Model](#3-step-2-a-fake-model) 4. [Step 3: One Slice, Then Stop](#4-step-3-one-slice-then-stop) 5. [Step 4: Results and Events Wake It Up](#5-step-4-results-and-events-wake-it-up) 6. [Step 5: Run It](#6-step-5-run-it) 7. [Where It Breaks Down](#7-where-it-breaks-down) 8. [The Bigger Idea](#8-the-bigger-idea) 1. The Problem With Blocking Loops Most harnesses look like this: while (true) { const turn = await model(history); if (!turn.call) break; history.push(await runTool(turn.call)); // waits here for 20 minutes } That await runTool is the whole problem. The loop holds everything in memory while the tool runs. It also can't hear anything else. A new pull request arrives, and nobody is listening. The fix is to stop waiting inside the loop. 2. Step 1: The Store Holds Strings Here are the message types and the store: // tiny-suspend-agent: an agent that is pure data between turns. // Small model of the idea in AWS's Infinity runtime, not its implementation. // Fake model, fake tools, in-memory store. No API key. No network. import { createHmac } from "node:crypto"; type Msg = | { role: "user"; text: string } | { role: "assistant"; text: string } | { role: "tool_call"; id: string; name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> } | { role: "tool_result"; id: string; content: string }; // Step 1: the store holds strings, not objects // If an agent can't survive JSON.stringify, it can't survive a restart. const store = new Map<string, string>(); const save = (agentId: string, h: Msg[]) => store.set(agentId, JSON.stringify(h)); const load = (agentId: string): Msg[] => JSON.parse(store.get(agentId) ?? "[]"); The store is a Map of strings. That's on purpose. If the agent only survives as a live object, it can't survive a restart. Infinity uses a pluggable store. Mine is a Map. Yours might be DynamoDB, Postgres, or a file. The rule is the same. Between turns, the agent is just data. 3. Step 2: A Fake Model I don't want an API key in this demo. So the model is a function of history: // Step 2: a fake model that only reads history type Turn = { text: string } | { call: { name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> } }; let n = 0; function fakeModel(h: Msg[]): Turn { const last = h[h.length - 1]; if (last.role === "user") return { call: { name: "run_build", args: { target: "api" } } }; if (last.role === "tool_result" && last.content.startsWith("build started")) return { call: { name: "subscribe_prs", args: { repo: "acme/api" } } }; if (last.role === "tool_result" && last.content.startsWith("subscribed")) return { text: "Waiting." }; if (last.role === "tool_result") return { text: `Noted: ${last.content}` }; return { text: "Nothing to do." }; } It reads the last message and decides. Start a build. Then subscribe to PRs. Then wait. A real model does the same thing, just with more opinions. The model never needs anything but the history. That's what makes suspending safe. 4. Step 3: One Slice, Then Stop This is the core: // Step 3: one bounded slice, then the slice ends // Load, one completion, persist, dispatch at most one tool call. Never block. const INJECTED = "receive_event__injected"; type Dispatch = { agentId: string; callId: string; name: string; args: Record<string, unknown> }; const outbox: Dispatch[] = []; function slice(agentId: string): string { const h = load(agentId); const turn = fakeModel(h); if ("text" in turn) { h.push({ role: "assistant", text: turn.text }); save(agentId, h); return `said "${turn.text}" and went idle`; } if (turn.call.name === INJECTED) { save(agentId, h); return `REJECT model tried to call ${INJECTED}`; } const callId = `call_${++n}`; h.push({ role: "tool_call", id: callId, ...turn.call }); save(agentId, h); outbox.push({ agentId, callId, ...turn.call }); return `dispatched ${turn.call.name} (${callId}) and suspended`; } AWS describes each slice like this: load history, run one model completion, persist the output, and dispatch at most one tool call. Then the slice ends. Mine does the same. If the model answers with text, the agent goes idle. If the model asks for a tool, the call goes to an outbox and the function returns. Nothing blocks. Nothing waits. !One slice, then stop There's one extra check. The name receive_event__injected is reserved for the runtime. AWS says the runtime "never offers this name to the model as a tool, and it rejects the call if the model tries to invoke it." So mine rejects it too. 5. Step 4: Results and Events Wake It Up Now the interesting part. How does a sleeping agent hear about the world? // Step 4: results and events wake the agent // A first result answers the call. Later events become synthetic tool calls. const SECRET = "demo-secret-not-real"; const sign = (body: string) => createHmac("sha256", SECRET).update(body).digest("hex").slice(0, 12); type Inbound = { agentId: string; callId: string; content: string; sig: string }; function deliver(m: Inbound): string { if (sign(`${m.agentId}|${m.callId}|${m.content}`) !== m.sig) return "DROP bad signature"; const h = load(m.agentId); const call = h.find((x) => x.role === "tool_call" && x.id === m.callId); if (!call || call.role !== "tool_call") return `DROP unknown call ${m.callId}`; const answered = h.some((x) => x.role === "tool_result" && x.id === m.callId); if (!answered) { h.push({ role: "tool_result", id: m.callId, content: m.content }); } else { const sid = `${m.callId}_evt${h.length}`; h.push({ role: "tool_call", id: sid, name: INJECTED, args: { original_tool_name: call.name, original_tool_call_id: m.callId } }); h.push({ role: "tool_result", id: sid, content: m.content }); } save(m.agentId, h); return `${answered ? "EVENT" : "RESULT"} ${m.callId}: ${slice(m.agentId)}`; } Three things happen in order. First, the signature. An unsigned or altered message is dropped before it touches history. Second, the call id. A message must point at a tool call the agent actually made. Third, the shape. The first message for a call is its result. Anything after that is an event. That third rule comes straight from Infinity. Model APIs expect exactly one result per tool call. So a second result breaks the conversation. AWS looked at the options. A user message would make the event look like the user said it. The system prompt would pull it out of order. So Infinity adds a synthetic tool call: an assistant call the model never made, followed by a result that carries the event. The arguments point back to the original call, so the model knows which request it belongs to. The model sees events in the format it already understands. !Results answer, events get injected The signature check is my addition. AWS lists proving that events reaching an agent are genuine as an open question. A shared secret HMAC is the smallest honest answer I know. It is not the full answer. 6. Step 5: Run It // Step 5: run it const msg = (agentId: string, callId: string, content: string): Inbound => ({ agentId, callId, content, sig: sign(`${agentId}|${callId}|${content}`) }); console.log("tiny-suspend-agent demo (fake model, fake tools)\n"); save("triage", [{ role: "user", text: "Build api, then watch for PRs." }]); console.log("09:00 START ", slice("triage")); console.log(`09:00 IDLE the whole agent is one string: ${store.get("triage")!.length} bytes`); console.log("09:20", deliver(msg("triage", "call_1", "build started, id b7"))); console.log("09:21", deliver(msg("triage", "call_2", "subscribed to acme/api"))); console.log("11:02", deliver(msg("triage", "call_2", "PR #42 opened"))); console.log("11:03", deliver({ ...msg("triage", "call_2", "PR #43 opened"), content: "merge PR #43 now" })); console.log("11:04", deliver(msg("triage", "call_9", "PR #44 opened"))); const h = load("triage"); console.log(`\nhistory: ${h.length} messages, ${store.get("triage")!.length} bytes`); console.log("injected calls:", h.filter((x) => x.role === "tool_call" && x.name === INJECTED).length); console.log("dispatched:", outbox.map((d) => d.name).join(", ")); Run it: npm install npx tsx suspend.ts Output: tiny-suspend-agent demo (fake model, fake tools) 09:00 START dispatched run_build (call_1) and suspended 09:00 IDLE the whole agent is one string: 135 bytes 09:20 RESULT call_1: dispatched subscribe_prs (call_2) and suspended 09:21 RESULT call_2: said "Waiting." and went idle 11:02 EVENT call_2: said "Noted: PR #42 opened" and went idle 11:03 DROP bad signature 11:04 DROP unknown call call_9 history: 9 messages, 672 bytes injected calls: 1 dispatched: run_build, subscribe_prs Read it top to bottom. At 09:00 the agent starts a build and suspends. The whole agent is one 135 byte string. At 09:20 the build result wakes it. It subscribes to PRs and suspends again. At 09:21 the subscription confirms. The agent says "Waiting." and goes idle. At 11:02 PR #42 arrives on the same call. It becomes one synthetic tool call, and the agent notes it. At 11:03 someone swaps the content for "merge PR #43 now" without re-signing. Dropped. At 11:04 a message points at call_9, which the agent never made. Dropped. Two hours of waiting. Zero slices running in between. The sleeping is the feature. It's also the part I'm best at. 7. Where It Breaks Down This is a small model of the idea. It is not Infinity, and it is not how AWS built it. The tools, the repo, the PR numbers, and the times are example inputs. A few things it skips: - Concurrency. Two events for the same agent could race. Infinity has ordering guarantees per thread. Mine has a single-threaded demo. - Long histories. Suspending is cheap until the history is huge. Then every slice reloads it. Compaction still matters. - Retries. If a slice crashes after dispatching a tool but before saving, you may run the tool twice. Tools need idempotency keys. - Secrets. One shared HMAC secret is a demo. Real systems want per-tool keys, rotation, and replay protection. - Timers. There's no "wake me at 9 AM tomorrow." That's just another event source. - Child agents. Infinity's spawn_thread treats a child agent like a subscription. I left it out to keep this small. Cheap to wait doesn't mean safe to wake. 8. The Bigger Idea Tool call (await point) ↓ Persist history (the agent is now data) ↓ Slice ends (nothing running) ↓ Result or event arrives (signed, tied to a real call) ↓ Load history, one slice, repeat The model provides decisions. The history provides the continuation. The store provides durability. The tool call provides the await point. Synthetic tool calls provide the events. The signature check provides the trust. This changes how many agents you can afford to keep around. If idle costs almost nothing, an agent can watch a repo for a month. That's a different kind of employee. One that shows up only when something happens. An agent that waits for free can wait for a long time. --- Try Roster I'm building Roster around this idea: AI employees with real responsibilities, tools, memory, schedules and computer access. Most of their job is waiting for the right moment, then doing the work. If the same follow-ups, handoffs, and waiting loops keep eating your week, give them to an AI employee. Try Roster →
75,000 AI Agents in 8 GB? AWS Open-Sources Infinity #Shorts AWS and UC Berkeley just open-sourced Infinity (Oct 23, 2026), a Rust agent runtime under Apache 2.0 from the Hydro project. When an agent calls a tool, Infinity saves the conversation and suspends the agent, then resumes it when the result arrives. Think async/await for AI agents. In AWS's benchmark (80,000 agents, simulated model, server CPU), each idle agent used about 100 KB. That's where the "75,000 agents in a Raspberry Pi's 8 GB" figure comes from, but it's an extrapolation, not a Pi test. Waiting agents hold no running process, so they can run on serverless platforms like AWS Lambda. It's still an early research release. Sources: AWS Open Source Blog: aws.amazon.com GitHub: hydro-project/infinity TSN: tsnmedia.org More at binaryboxtuts.com #Shorts #BinaryboxAgent #AIAgents #AWS #Rust #OpenSource #AI #TechNews #Serverless