Writing Agent Memories: What to Store and What to Skip

Not everything an agent sees is worth remembering. Store too little and it forgets what mattered; store everything and the memory fills with noise that drowns the signal at retrieval time. The extraction step — deciding what to keep and distilling it into clean, self-contained facts — is the most consequential and most overlooked part of a memory system. Memory begins with a decision Of everything that just happened, what's worth keeping? This is the first and most important question a memory…