Your AI agent has amnesia. Here's the file architecture I use to fix it. (opens in new tab)

Discussed on DEV

Most agents I build start life the same way: capable, fast, and completely amnesiac. They have no opinions, no voice, and they forget everything the moment the session ends. They're a search engine with extra steps. After rebuilding the same scaffolding for the Nth time, I converged on a small set of plain Markdown files and a memory model that survives restarts. No framework, no database — just files an agent reads at the start of every session and writes to as it goes. Here's the whole thin...

Read the original article
Sign in to keep reading the full article.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigation

Next / previous post
j/k
Open post
oorEnter
Preview post
v

Post Actions

Love post
a
Like post
l
Dislike post
d
Undo reaction
u
Save / unsave
s

Recommendations

Add interest / feed
Enter
Not interested
x

Go to

Home
gh
Interests
gi
Feeds
gf
Likes
gl
History
gy
Changelog
gc
Settings
gs
Discover
gb
Search
/

General

Show this help
?
Submit feedback
!
Close modal / unfocus
Esc

Press ? anytime to show this help