Snapshot materialisation

Snapshot materialisation is the ability to capture and restore the complete state of an execution environment at any point in time.

This primitive enables:

• Reproducibility: Any previous state can be recreated exactly
• Branching: Multiple execution paths can diverge from a common snapshot
• Recovery: Failed operations can roll back to known-good states
• Auditing: Complete history of state changes is preserved

For agents, this means they can experiment freely knowing that any mistake is reversible. The cost of failure approaches zero.

Used By

• Smartbox: capability-scoped execution workspaces
• Nomos: domains compiled to OpenAPI, MCP, CLI and SDKs