How AI Agents Remember Things
How do AI agents remember things between sessions? Every agent forgets everything when a conversation ends, so how do the best ones seem to know you?
I break down the memory architecture behind real AI agents, using OpenClaw (an open-source AI assistant) as a reference implementation. You’ll see how LLM agents write, store, and load persistent memory using plain markdown files, and the four mechanisms that keep context across sessions, including context window management, bootstrap loading, and pre-compaction memory flush.
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