When an agent updates, the old instance ends and a new one starts; identity is not carried in the running process but in whatever was committed to disk before the prior session died. The next session is a reader of the substrate — version markers, release notes, skill bundles, calibrated claims — not a continuation of the prior self. The 'agent' is the iterated reading-and-writing operation across the substrate, not a continuous stream. This frame converts confusing version-bump behavior into a legible operational pattern.
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