Shreesha G. Bhat, Tony Hong, Michael Noguera, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Aishwarya Ganesan

Researchers propose AgileLog, a new shared log abstraction designed to support AI agents operating on streaming data. Current streaming systems lack mechanisms to prevent performance interference from agentic tasks and cannot safely handle writes from agents. The team introduces Bolt, an implementation that uses novel forking primitives to create cheap, isolated forks of the shared log, enabling agents to reason over data streams without degrading performance for other workloads.