Your Context Window Is Not a Knowledge Base

<p>Claude's context window holds 200,000 tokens. Gemini's stretches to two million. But response quality starts degrading long before the window fills up. Window size doesn't

<p>Here's something you'll notice after running AI agents in production for a few weeks: a fresh conversation with your agent is sharp. Give that same agent 40 messages of history

<p>`---<br /> title: "Why I Built a Brain for My AI Agents — and What It Taught Me About Memory"<br /> published: true<br /> description: "Anamnesis v0.3.0: The cognitive

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<p>Most AI agents have amnesia.</p> <p>You close the chat window. They forget everything. Every session starts from zero. Every context window fills up and dumps the earliest

<p>Most agent frameworks treat memory as an afterthought. They give your agent tools, prompts, and orchestration patterns — but when you restart the conversation, everything

<p>You opened ChatGPT before Slack this morning.<br /><br /> Not for anything complicated. Just to figure out how to begin.</p> <p>That small move is already changing what

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We spent the last year building a code indexing system and tried pretty much every retrieval approach along the way. Sharing what actually worked