The memory store may know the truth. The interface may be throwing it away. This piece grew out of a...
Memory APIs discard temporal relationships between records, causing agent retrieval of outdated facts even when the database preserves full history. Without distinguishing correction, supersession, and invalidation, agents fail to explain decisions or detect memory corruption.
The memory store may know the truth. The interface may be throwing it away.
This piece grew out of a conversation on Edward Izgorodin's post Agent Memory: Everything It Remembers Has the Same Authority, and That Is the Bug. Several of the sharpest points below have names attached, and I have tried to attach them.
Imagine an AI agent asks its memory system a straightforward question:
What database does the production application use?
The memory API returns:
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