Struggling with Memory Silos Across AI Tools: Permissions and Deduplication
the-cybersapien · reddit · 2026-08-20
A user highlights the fragmented memory landscape when using multiple AI tools (Claude Code, ChatGPT, local models, agent CLIs), where memories are isolated and corrections don't sync. Attempts with mem0 and agentmemory revealed two major unsolved issues:
- Granular Permissions: Need for per-tool access control (e.g., coding agents seeing infra notes, ChatGPT seeing none). Current tools like Zep scope by user, not client; OpenMemory had per-app ACL but is discontinued.
- Corrections & Updates: Most systems only append, causing conflicting facts upon updates. Additionally, automatic extraction often fails, injecting memories into context and then re-extracting them as duplicates (e.g., hundreds of identical preferences).
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