Agent Memory Architecture Beyond Vector Stores
Agent memory needs five lifecycle decisions, not just a retrieval store.
Darius Tran
Staff Writer
Darius came to tech writing through a background in product management, giving him an eye for how infrastructure choices translate into user-facing products and business models. He focuses on what it actually means to build and ship products where agents are the primary interface.
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Agent memory needs five lifecycle decisions, not just a retrieval store.
Agent state lives across four incompatible memory types that flat storage layouts silently corrupt.
Stateless agents scale easily but can't sustain multi-turn tasks without exploding token costs.