GUIDE

Agent Memory: What Should Be Stored and What Should Expire?

A practical distinction between durable user preferences, business facts and temporary task state.

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Why this matters

Memory is a product policy before it is a vector database. Decide retention, correction and deletion rules first.

The practical takeaways

  • Store only facts that improve future decisions.
  • Attach provenance and timestamps to durable memory.
  • Provide a correction and deletion path for users.

How to apply it

Start with one measurable workflow, define the failure boundary, and publish the result with enough context for another builder to reproduce the decision. The goal is not to chase every announcement; it is to turn useful changes into better products, skills and deployment practice.

Editorial note

This is an original FDE editorial synthesis based on the linked source. It is not a translation or reproduction of the source article.