Agent Memory is the set of mechanisms that let an AI agent retain and reuse information beyond a single context window — across turns, sessions, tools, and tasks — instead of starting blank each time.
It usually spans short-term working memory (the active context) and longer-term stores that are written, summarized, and retrieved on demand. The design questions are what to remember, how to compress it, and when to fetch it back, closely related to RAG and Context Engineering.
For builders it is what makes multi-step Agents reliable over long horizons; without it an agent repeats work and loses track of its goal. The failure mode is unbounded memory that floods the window with stale detail, degrading the very reasoning it was meant to support.
Topic: Agents Related: Agents Context Engineering RAG
Recent Updates
- 2026-07-16: Oracle Agent Memory paper proposes a database-native memory substrate for long-horizon agents (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Oracle Kartik Talamadupula
- 2026-07-16: An Essay on Why AI Memory Should Be a Separate Layer (量子位) · qbitai.com — QbitAI Shadoweave · OpenAI Sutton’s Oak Lab H.M. Solomon Shereshevsky Ted Chiang Wenle Sutton
- 2026-07-16: NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Embed for retrieval-focused RAG and agent workflows (Hugging Face - Blog) · huggingface.co — NVIDIA · Hugging Face · NVIDIA NeMo · vLLM NVIDIA NIM Nemotron 3 Embed Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2 · Nemotron 3 Ultra
- 2026-07-17: MemoHarness: structured optimization of agent harnesses (DAIR.AI) · x.com — DAIR.AI
- 2026-07-18: Shishi Technology launches Vectron, a token optimization platform for domestic chip stacks (量子位) · qbitai.com — 是石科技 拓元 Vectron 量子位 · QbitAI · WAIC 2026 昇腾 昆仑芯 天数智芯 太初 瀚博半导体 摩尔线程 · 沐曦 燧原 · 清华大学 · 北京大学 北京航空航天大学 闫博文 允中
- 2026-07-18: Prompt Injection Against Agent Memory in Claude Code and Codex (DAIR.AI) · x.com — DAIR.AI · OpenAI · Opus 4.7 · GPT 5.5
- 2026-07-21: A Telegram take on Kimi K3, state-based memory, and context-length limits (@turboproject) · t.me — Kimi K3
- 2026-07-21: MOSAIC proposes structured long-term memory for LLM agents (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org
- 2026-07-21: From Memory to Skills: Evidence-Grounded Co-Evolution Governance for Long-Horizon LLM Agents (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org
- 2026-07-21: A Local Developer Agent Built on Browser Sessions for DeepSeek, Qwen, and ChatGPT (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — DeepSeek
- 2026-07-21: Personal messenger agents versus code-only assistants (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com
- 2026-07-21: An agent caught its own false success report using memory (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — MiniLM
- 2026-07-21: MSCE turns agent memory traces into callable skills (DAIR.AI) · x.com — DAIR.AI
- 2026-07-22: Hermes Agent adds persistent memory, session search, and skill files across CLI and Telegram (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — Nous Research · Telegram · Discord · Slack · WhatsApp · Signal · GPT · Claude · Gemini · DeepSeek
- 2026-07-22: OpenClaw on NixOS as a declarative AI assistant with long-term memory (Все статьи подряд / Искусственный интеллект / Хабр) · habr.com — OpenClaw · NixOS · Telegram QMD agenix Garnix Home Manager · GLM-4.7-Flash
- 2026-07-23: Screenpipe adds local screen-and-audio capture as searchable memory for agents (Hacker News) · news.ycombinator.com — Hacker News Screenpipe · YC Tella · YouTube · Obsidian · OpenAI · Anthropic Louis Karpathy Garry gpt2 GPT3 · Parakeet · Whisper
- 2026-07-23: How OpenClaw was configured on NixOS with declarative memory and Telegram integration (Искусственный интеллект – AI, ANN и иные формы искусственного разума) · habr.com — OpenClaw · NixOS · Arch Linux · Telegram QMD · GitHub Garnix Home Manager agenix nix-openclaw NetworkManager Hyprland AmneziaWG polkit · GLM-4.7-Flash
- 2026-07-24: Claude Cookbook roundup covers agent workflows, eval loops, memory, and managed agents (Hacker News) · platform.claude.com — Anthropic · OpenAI · Modal · Docker · Fable 5 · Opus 4.8
- 2026-07-24: PersonaTrail benchmarks personalized web agents with browsing-history memory (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — arXiv
- 2026-07-24: CAMeR proposes keyword-gated memory retention for LLM agents (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org
- 2026-07-25: A debate on whether agents are already useful or still just getting started (量子位) · qbitai.com — QbitAI · Alibaba Kujing Technology Miaopai CCF · Tsinghua University Nanjing University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tianjin University Shandong University Shanghai AI Laboratory Jin Lei Gao Yang Hao Jianyie Han Zhongyi Wen Ying Zhou Hao Zhang Hangfan Du Yanlong
- 2026-07-27: Learning on the Job: Continual Learning from Deployment Feedback for Frozen-Weights Agents (cs.AI updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org — Anthropic · Mistral · Claude Sonnet 5 Mistral Large
- 2026-07-27: Zhijing: Engineering Social Intelligence as Testable and Trainable AI Capability (量子位) · qbitai.com — Chinese Academy of Sciences GPT 5.5 · DeepSeek V4 Pro Zing-27B Zing-32B Zing-8B Zing-14B
- 2026-07-28: A Frozen 12B Beats Frontier Models on Verified Work: 100% Accuracy, 0 Tokens, Bit-Exact, Forever (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · corbenic-galahad-bench.hf.space — Hugging Face
- 2026-07-28: Co-Evolving Graph and Text Memory for Training-Free Multi-Hop Question Answering (cs.CL updates on arXiv.org) · arxiv.org
FAQ
What is Agent Memory?
Agent Memory is the set of mechanisms that lets AI agents persist useful context across turns, sessions, tools, and tasks. GROUNDING tracks memory stores, compression, retrieval boundaries, and failure modes for long-running agent workflows.
Which topic does Agent Memory belong to?
On the GROUNDING radar, Agent Memory is grouped under the Agents topic.
Which concepts are related to Agent Memory?
Related concepts tracked by the radar include Agents, Context Engineering, RAG.