> Agents are not Microservices

> Agents naturally align with OOP principles: they maintain encapsulated state (their memory), expose methods (their tools and decision-making capabilities via inference pipelines), and communicate through message passing

it does sound like a service (memory=db,methods+messages=api). it is just the level of isolation/deployment you need

UPD: also, how come your services share database layer (?), maybe problems in scaling are not due to Agents at all? do you have scaling issues even without agents? would not be surprised! classic rule form Amazon 2002 API mandate by Bezos "no shared db between services. all communication happens over exposed interfaces and over network".