Agent Memory Engineering: 6 Rules to Separate Working Memory from Long-Term Storage

blaizedsouza · x · 2026-08-20

A developer shares engineering practices for separating 'working memory' from 'long-term memory' in Agents. The core principle is strict isolation between temporary noise and permanent knowledge to avoid polluting the knowledge base with raw tool dumps. The post outlines 6 actionable rules: scoping working memory to a single task, promoting only proven facts, retrieving with relevance scores, clearing working memory after tasks, and scheduled reviews. It emphasizes that memory promotion should be an explicit write operation, not an accident.

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