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.