Long-term memory is what an AI Agent persists beyond a single session and recalls in future runs — facts like 'this user is vegan', 'this customer is on plan X' or 'we hit this bug last month'. In practice it usually lives in a Vector Database (Pinecone, Chroma, pgvector) or a structured store, and is retrieved on demand via RAG-style lookup whenever the agent needs it. ChatGPT's memory feature and Claude's Projects are productised forms of this idea. Poorly designed long-term memory leads to 'the user never said that' failures and privacy risks, so what gets stored and for how long is one of the most important design decisions in any agent product.
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Glossary · Intermediate · 2023
Long-term Memory
Memory that persists beyond a single session, available to an agent across future runs.
- EN — English term
- Long-term Memory
- TR — Turkish term
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