A paper from late May argues that agent memory is not a database. I think it is right. That sentence...
A paper from late May argues that agent memory is not a database. I think it is right.
That sentence is the entire thesis. The rest of this post is what it means.
The four failure modes
Orogat and Mansour name four failure modes you hit when you treat memory like storage:
Unregulated growth — facts pile up indefinitely with no shape control
The boring take on agent memory is that coding agents forget too much. That is true, but it is also...
Most agent memory systems are digital attics. You put things in. You hope to find them later. You...
Everyone building agents obsesses over recall: vector stores, embeddings, RAG pipelines, bigger...
An agent acting on wrong memory is worse than one with none. Every memory tool for coding agents has...
I started with a small question: Can an agent retrieve the right memory and still take the wrong...
Vector recall bolted onto a prompt isn't memory. A temporal knowledge graph, self-editing blocks, and consolidation are what let…
