Research: Identifying "Ghost Memory" Failure Mode in Named Agents
omarsar0 · x · 2026-07-06
omarsar0 introduces new research revealing the "ghost memory" issue in long-running agents: they confidently recite outdated user facts. This happens because obsolete, current, and transitional records coexist in the memory bank and are retrieved together, misleading the model. The study proposes A-TMA, a state-aware overlay that retains superseded and transitional records instead of deleting them. It builds evidence packages based on the query's state, tagging records as current, historical, or transitional.
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