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EB-5

Memory, State & Continuity

How agents remember within a task, across tasks, and across sessions.

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5 topics — scope and references for each.

Short-term vs. long-term memory
The foundational distinction. Short-term (working) memory holds the immediate context of the current task and is volatile; long-term memory persists across s…
Memory types — episodic / semantic / procedural
A richer taxonomy of long-term memory. **Episodic** memory stores specific past events in sequence; **semantic** memory holds generalised facts, rules, and p…
Checkpointing & state persistence
Writing the agent's full state at critical moments so a long workflow can resume or be audited. Students learn to define checkpoints (after a document is pro…
Storage strategy — Redis / SQL / vector
Matching storage to memory type. Fast in-memory stores hold short-term context; durable relational stores hold episodic traces; vector databases hold semanti…
Continuity across sessions — thread IDs
The mechanics of persistence: thread identifiers, checkpointing backends, and how frameworks extract and store user insights so an agent personalises over ti…

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