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Jun 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Production-Grade Agent Memory: Compaction, Decay, and the Observation Engine

The article presents a comprehensive architecture for production‑grade autonomous agents, detailing failure modes, four distinct memory types, a nightly observation engine that turns patterns into procedural rules, tier‑aware decay scoring, context budgeting, GDPR‑compliant deletion, and a step‑by‑step maintenance pipeline.