An agent remembering everything sounds useful until it remembers the wrong crap

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Summary

The author critiques the idea of agents remembering everything and introduces TrueMemory, a system that converts memories into trait claims with confidence and evidence to better calibrate agent behavior.

I don’t really want agents to remember everything. That sounds good in a demo, then the agent drags in some old preference, stale project fact, half-true thing I said once, and suddenly it’s “personalized” in the most annoying way possible. What I want is smaller. Before an agent acts, it should have some idea of: what does this person usually prefer? how much evidence supports that? is it still current? has the user contradicted it? should this actually change the next action? That’s what I’ve been building with TrueMemory. It takes memories and turns them into trait claims. Stuff like communication style, decision style, tool preferences, quality vs speed, feedback style, all with confidence and evidence attached. The goal is not “the agent knows me.” That phrase already sounds cursed. The goal is more boring: the agent stops acting like every session starts from zero, but also knows when its model of me might be wrong. I feel like a lot of agent memory stuff skips this part and just talks about retrieval. Anyone else working on memory as calibration, not just recall?
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