Agent Memory: Everything It Remembers Has the Same Authority, and That Is the Bug
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Summary
Coding agents fail not from insufficient memory but from treating all stored facts with equal authority. The useful split is between evidence (what happened) and policy (what should happen), further organized into three layers: shared project truth, role memory, and episodes. Without tracking both 'recorded at' and 'valid from/until' timestamps, agents overwrite facts instead of closing them, losing the context needed to explain past code or warn about superseded patterns.