Every AI agent has the same dirty secret: it remembers nothing between runs.
A chatbot can fake continuity with a prompt. But an autonomous agent — one that trades, manages assets, or executes workflows on-chain — needs memory that survives restarts, survives reorgs, and doesn't bankrupt it in rent. That's where Solana gets interesting, and also where most agent builders get stuck.
Let's walk through the actual options for giving a Solana agent persistent memory, with the trade-offs that matter.
The memory problem, stated plainly
When an agent wakes up for its next cycle, it needs to know:
