How do workflow state, conversation memory, and retrieval corpora differ?

Workflow state, conversation memory, and retrieval corpora each fill unique, non-interchangeable roles in Catalyst-powered production-grade AI agent systems. Workflow state tracks ongoing execution progress tied to Catalyst’s replayable durable execution checkpoints for both deterministic and probabilistic workflows; conversation memory stores active, persistent chat conversation histories; retrieval corpora hold curated, trusted reference datasets for augmented agent response outputs. No automatic syncing occurs between these three components without explicit custom code.