Design the memory architecture for an agent that runs for weeks across thousands of interactions.
A context window is not memory. Real agents need a storage architecture: working buffer, episodic recall, and consolidated facts. The signal is the read/write paths and how you keep memory from decaying.
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A context window is not memory. Real agents need a storage architecture: working buffer, episodic recall, and consolidated facts. The signal is the read/write paths and how you keep memory from decaying.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
