June 2, 2026·31 min read·Intermediate
AI Agent Memory Is Broken: Designing Multi-Layer Memory for Production AI Agents
A production guide to AI agent memory architecture: designing long-term memory for AI agents across working, episodic, semantic, procedural, and organizational layers. Why RAG is not memory, why vector databases are not memory, and how governed, situation-aware memory prevents memory poisoning in enterprise AI agents.