From Context to Memory: Your Agents Need a Real Memory Layer — Anders Swanson, Oracle

Your agent rereads the same files every session because nothing it learned was saved.

Anders Swanson, developer evangelist for Oracle Database, treats agent memory as a systems problem. Context windows aren't memory, bigger windows aren't the fix, and markdown scratch pads and grep don't scale. Keep going down that road and you'll end up building your own database. He walks through the pattern modern memory systems are converging on: formation, recall, evolution and evaluation, plus governance. That means typed memories (episodic, semantic, procedural and working state), a storage schema with vectors, text indexes, graph links, time and audit history, redaction before anything is written, and hybrid search that blends several retrieval methods. He covers failure modes like stale, mis-scoped, poisoned and conflicting memories, and why feedback is what closes the loop.

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