Developers Criticize Agents' Inability to Use Tools During Context Compaction

A developer from the Letta/MemGPT team notes that as of September 2026, AI agents still cannot use tools or write files during context compaction, which remains essentially just a summarization step.

2026-09-15 ~ 2026-09-15 · 2 related posts

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