Agent Memory

Purpose

Give an agent state that outlives its context window. Anything the agent must not forget belongs in a file it can re-read — not in a conversation history that will be compacted away.

When to Use

• A task that spans more turns than the context window holds.
• Work that continues across sessions.
• An agent that repeatedly rediscovers the same fact or repeats the same failed approach.
• Accumulating knowledge about a codebase or a domain over time.

Capabilities

• Deciding what deserves persistence.
• File-based memory the agent reads and writes.
• Structuring notes for retrieval rather than for narrative.
• Staleness detection and pruning.