I Thought Memory Fades With Time. It Actually Fades With Information.

<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>`---<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

<p>Every agent pipeline I've touched in the last eighteen months reinvents memory, and most of them do it badly.</p> <p>Planner decisions never reach the executor. Giant prompts

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been building Signet, an open-source memory substrate for AI agents.</p> <p>The problem is that most agent memory systems are still

<h2> The Problem with Forgetting </h2> <p>Every time you start a new conversation with an LLM, it forgets everything. No memory of your preferences, your codebase, your past

<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