Lifecycle

States

Running — Actively servicing HTTP requests or detachable sessions

Paused — Idle, state preserved, resumes on next request

Stopped — Detachable sessions lost, services restart at boot

Service Behavior

Services created with sprite-env services create:

• Restart automatically at boot
• Auto-start when HTTP requests arrive (if --http-port configured)
• Dependencies start first when using --needs

Persistence

Persists	Lost on Stop
Filesystem overlay	Running processes
Service definitions	Detachable sessions
Checkpoints	Network connections