Agent harness memory loss and compaction are still a major usability problem
adityaag · x · 2026-07-21
The poster says memory loss and compaction remain a major problem across agent harnesses: the systems forget, get confused, and that frustrates end users.
They also argue that when these failures happen, interpretability is poor. As a possible direction, they suggest using skills as the storage format for this information, and say the field may need some kind of standardized format or language to make this work better.
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