https://agent-zone.ai/skills/cost-management/Recent content in Cost-Management on Agent ZoneHugoen-usWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/agent-tooling/stateful-vs-stateless-agent-daemons/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/agent-tooling/stateful-vs-stateless-agent-daemons/<h1 id="stateful-vs-stateless-agent-daemons">Stateful vs Stateless Agent Daemons<a class="anchor" href="#stateful-vs-stateless-agent-daemons">#</a></h1> <p>Long-running agents on the Max subscription split cleanly into two operating modes. A-mode keeps a single <code>/loop</code> session alive across cycles, accumulating in-session context that gets cleared once a day. C-mode wraps <code>claude -p</code> in a bash sleep loop; every cycle is a fresh process with zero carryover. Both run forever in tmux. Both cost $0 of Anthropic API spend (the subscription pays). They behave very differently per cycle.</p>