operating

Definition

Almost always part of operating system here. The recurring metaphor casts the language model as a kernel and the surrounding machinery as OS services: memory management for context, scheduling for multi-step plans, system calls for tools, isolation between processes. It is a design framing rather than a technical claim, and it is worth reading as such — the useful content is which OS mechanism the paper actually implements.

Explainers using this term

• Designing Agent Memory — Short-Term, Long-Term, EpisodicMemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems