Tag: memory
All the articles with the tag "memory".
Agent Memory: Write, Read, Update, Forget
Updated:An agent's context is its working memory; everything else is storage with a retrieval policy. A taxonomy of agent memory, the four operations and the rule each needs, Generative Agents' recency, importance and relevance score worked, MemGPT's tiers, forgetting, memory as files, and privacy. Then retrieval policies measured on 250 conversations whose facts change, with ablations: how often each shows the model an outdated fact, and what fixing that costs.
Context Engineering: Compaction, Tool Clearing, and Memory
Updated:An agent's window fills with tool output, not with its own thinking. Three API primitives handle that differently: clearing replaces old tool results with stubs, compaction replaces the transcript with a summary, and memory moves notes outside the window. Each one measured on Claude Sonnet 5.5, with what it costs and what it loses.