Anthropic publishes reference architecture for always-on agents
The non-obvious insight is that "always-on" is an illusion built from short, stateless runs stitched together by queues and timers, not a long-lived process. Developers building bots or proactive assistants can copy this five-component pattern directly instead of inventing their own persistence layer. Teams in ASEAN and China shipping chatbot products similar to Grok Bot will find the loop design applicable regardless of which model they serve.
