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Agent Memory

Overview

Agent memory is the set of mechanisms that lets an agent carry useful context across steps, sessions, users, repositories, documents, or decisions. It includes short-term working context, long-term stores, cached artifacts, decision traces, vector or graph retrieval, and policies that decide what should be remembered, refreshed, or forgotten.

Conference Context

The topic comes from classic AI state management, knowledge representation, retrieval systems, personal assistants, and database-backed application design. The long-context era changed the tradeoff: teams can stuff more into prompts, but still need structured memory so agents can reason over the right facts at the right time.

Significance

Memory determines whether an agent can act consistently instead of restarting from scratch. It improves personalization, reduces repeated work, supports multi-step workflows, and makes decisions auditable. Poor memory creates stale assumptions, privacy risk, context bloat, and confident mistakes.

Applied Use

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

Separate working context from durable memory. Store source-backed facts, decisions, user preferences, and artifacts with timestamps and provenance. Retrieve by task intent, not just lexical similarity. Add policies for freshness, deletion, permissions, and summarization, and test memory behavior with scenario-based evals.

Memory is useful in coding agents, customer support, research assistants, enterprise knowledge agents, personal productivity tools, and any workflow that spans multiple sessions or documents.

Use durable memory when repeated interaction or long-horizon work matters. Avoid it for one-shot tasks, sensitive data without clear retention rules, or cases where stale state would be more harmful than asking again.

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| Evidence type | Count | Review note |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| other | 53 | Related pages outside the main evidence categories. |
| resources | 22 | Video/resource pages; check source status before treating as primary event evidence. |
| slides | 18 | OCR or reconstructed slide evidence; mark claims as OCR-derived unless image-reviewed. |
| talks | 24 | Official schedule pages; use for titles, speakers, tracks, and stated talk framing. |
| tools | 2 | Derived inventory pages; use as entity context, not independent proof. |
| transcripts | 1 | Transcript markdown; check session matching and caption quality. |

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This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

| other | 54 | Related pages outside the main evidence categories. |
| resources | 23 | Video/resource pages; check source status before treating as primary event evidence. |
| talks | 25 | Official schedule pages; use for titles, speakers, tracks, and stated talk framing. |

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Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

| resources | 26 | Video/resource pages; check source status before treating as primary event evidence. |
| tools | 3 | Derived inventory pages; use as entity context, not independent proof. |

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This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

Talks

Resources

Slides

Transcripts

Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

Talks

Resources

Slides

Transcripts

Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

Talks

Resources

Slides

Transcripts

Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

Talks

Resources

Slides

Transcripts

Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

| other | 56 | Related pages outside the main evidence categories. |
| resources | 28 | Video/resource pages; check source status before treating as primary event evidence. |
| slides | 19 | OCR or reconstructed slide evidence; mark claims as OCR-derived unless image-reviewed. |

Talks

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Transcripts

Tools

This table summarizes the local evidence already linked from this topic. It is a navigation aid, not a claim that every linked page has been fully reviewed.

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Resources

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Transcripts

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Active Use Cases

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Slide-Derived Scheduled Session Signals