The agent sent an email and waited 3 seconds before replying to the user. Asynchronous processing offloads operations that don't need immediate responses to the background.

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The agent sent an email and waited 3 seconds before replying to the user. Asynchronous processing offloads operations that don't need immediate responses to the background.

AI Agent Async Processing: Background Tasks That Don't Block the Main Flow

AI Agent async processing: background tasks that don't block the main flow.

Use a message queue (Redis/Celery) to offload time-consuming tasks to the background: 1. User request comes in → immediately return "Processing" 2. Agent computes in the background → push the result to the user when done 3. User doesn't have to wait — better experience

from celery import Celery
app = Celery('agent', broker='redis://localhost')

@app.task
def process_request(user_input):
    result = agent.run(user_input)
    notify_user(result)