Memory & Context
23 posts · showing 21–23
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What Belongs in Long-Term Memory (and What's Just Transcript)
Embedding every turn gives you a transcript with a search box, not memory. Three categories deserve to outlive a conversation — and the contradiction problem needs deciding before it arrives, not after.
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Trim, Summarize, or Retrieve? Three Ways to Survive a Long Agent Run
Trimming loses the oldest information, summarizing loses specificity, retrieval loses whatever the query missed. Which loss your run can survive is the whole decision — plus one rule that prevents most long-run failures.
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Why Your Agent Forgets Step 2 by Step 7 — And Four Ways to Keep the Thread
Agents rarely fail because they reason badly — they fail because the original instruction gets buried under accumulated tool output. Here's how to tell displacement from dilution, and four fixes that keep the thread intact.