What is Agent Memory and why does it matter? (opens in new tab)

This post originally appeared on tokenjam.dev/blog. Agent memory is the persistent state an AI agent maintains across sessions and beyond the LLM's context window. It stores facts the agent has learned, decisions it has made, and relationships it has tracked, so a future interaction can retrieve and act on them. Without memory, every session starts from zero. Why it matters A stateless LLM forgets everything when the conversation ends. That works for one-off questions. It breaks the moment yo...