Updating a skill is editing a file; updating agent memory is the real engineering problem
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-09-02
Part 2 of a 7-part series on agent memory by jaydeepkarale.
- Core point: updating a skill is easy (edit a Markdown file), but updating agent memory is not — the agent must decide what's worth remembering, whether new experience contradicts existing beliefs, and what to let go of.
- This holds across all four memory types (working, semantic, episodic, procedural), and the real engineering problem lies in the six stages underneath them.
- The series aims to build fundamentals first, then apply them by actually building agents with memory.
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