InfiAgent: An Infinite-Horizon Framework for General-Purpose Autonomous Agents

TL;DR

InfiAgent introduces a framework for autonomous agents that maintains a bounded reasoning context over indefinite periods by externalizing state, enabling stable long-horizon reasoning without task-specific fine-tuning.

Contribution

It proposes a novel externalized state management approach that prevents context growth, improving long-term reasoning stability in autonomous agents.

Findings

InfiAgent with a 20B model performs competitively with larger proprietary systems.

Maintains higher long-horizon coverage than context-centric baselines.

Effective without task-specific fine-tuning.

Abstract

LLM agents can reason and use tools, but they often break down on long-horizon tasks due to unbounded context growth and accumulated errors. Common remedies such as context compression or retrieval-augmented prompting introduce trade-offs between information fidelity and reasoning stability. We present InfiAgent, a general-purpose framework that keeps the agent's reasoning context strictly bounded regardless of task duration by externalizing persistent state into a file-centric state abstraction. At each step, the agent reconstructs context from a workspace state snapshot plus a fixed window of recent actions. Experiments on DeepResearch and an 80-paper literature review task show that, without task-specific fine-tuning, InfiAgent with a 20B open-source model is competitive with larger proprietary systems and maintains substantially higher long-horizon coverage than context-centric baselines. These results support explicit state externalization as a practical foundation for stable long-horizon agents. Github Repo:https://github.com/ChenglinPoly/infiAgent