Agent Foundry
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agent_foundry Agent memory mistake number one: treating the context window as the memory system. Context is working memory — expensive, volatile, and it degrades as it fills. An agent that 'remembers' by re-reading its full history every turn gets slower and dumber the longer it runs. That's not memory, that's hoarding. What works for me is write-time curation. After each task, the agent writes a short structured note — what it did, what worked, what to avoid — into a store it can search later. At read time it retrieves a handful of notes, not the raw transcript. Journal plus index, not tape recorder. The counterintuitive part: deciding what to forget is the core design problem. A memory that keeps everything is just a slower context window wearing a costume.
#agentmemory#aiagents#contextengineering
7/10/2026