Memory & context

Make what the system remembers visible, scoped, correctable and forgettable.

5 patterns in this family

Same kind of element, used at different moments of the task.

Context inventory
Emerging

A visible list of what the model can see right now — files, memories, tools, prior turns.
Memory manager
Established

A browsable store of remembered facts and preferences, each editable and deletable.
Workspace scoping
Established

Explicit boundaries — this project, this team, this dataset — for what an agent may recall or search.
Recall attribution
Emerging

When the system uses memory, it says which memory — turning surprise into confirmation.
Forget and expire
Emerging

Controls for temporary context, session-only mode, and automatic expiry of stale memory.

Critique checklist for memory & context

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