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Agent Memory: An Anatomy
Key takeaways
- I had coffee with Aleksandra last Tuesday at the place on Mostowa. the memory is dated, situated, and personal. you experienced it. recall feels like re-experiencing — you can place yourself back in the scene.
- agent memory libraries handle this with a table of timestamped statements. user mentioned they live in Berlin (2026-03-14). each entry is a single event the system observed.
- semantic memory. facts about the world that aren’t tied to any specific event.
I had coffee with Aleksandra last Tuesday at the place on Mostowa. the memory is dated, situated, and personal. you experienced it. recall feels like re-experiencing — you can place yourself back in the scene.
agent memory libraries handle this with a table of timestamped statements. user mentioned they live in Berlin (2026-03-14). each entry is a single event the system observed. some libraries keep the raw conversation episode alongside the extracted facts.
semantic memory. facts about the world that aren’t tied to any specific event. Berlin is the capital of Germany. the boiling point of water is 100°C at sea level. you know these things; you can’t usually recall when you learned them. the knowledge is decontextualized.
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