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Resume Means Resume: A Machine-Checked Conformance Contract for Checkpoint, Interrupt, and Resume Semantics in Workflow Persistence Layers

A framework that persists execution state so a run can be interrupted, survive a crash, and continue must decide what a resume means for effects that already fired. Five widely deployed agent workflow frameworks answer differently, none exposes a machine-checkable contract, and behavior violates eve