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Applied AI·Agents

the memory feature you shipped is a database plus a retrieval step, re-pasted into the window every turn.

Memory (short-term vs long-term)

Draft summary, pending review

Short-term memory is the current context window; long-term memory is anything persisted outside it (a database, files, a vector store) and selectively reloaded. All 'memory' features are retrieval systems wearing a friendly name.

Commonly confused with