Agent memory is not a database (opens in new tab)

A paper from late May argues that agent memory is not a database. I think it is right. That sentence is the entire thesis. The rest of this post is what it means. The four failure modes Orogat and Mansour name four failure modes you hit when you treat memory like storage: Unregulated growth — facts pile up indefinitely with no shape control Missing semantic revision — the system cannot update what a fact means over time, only the row itself Capacity-driven forgetting — you forget the wrong th...