AI 101

Memory

Also known as: agent memory · working memory

Agents

Memory is the information an agent retains and reuses.

  • Short-term (working): the context of the current task — the conversation, intermediate results.
  • Long-term: facts and preferences persisted across sessions (often in a vector DB or store).

Without memory, every interaction starts from zero.

Connect it to context: short-term memory *is* the context window. Long-term memory is what you retrieve into it (via RAG) when you need it.