Interactive memory architecture explainer
Agent Memory Architecture
This interactive explainer is the clearest companion page to my writing on agent memory.
Use it if you want a faster mental model of how modern AI systems simulate memory without making the base model itself stateful. The important shift is architectural: extraction, recall, versioning, temporal ordering, and source grounding are being built around the model rather than magically inside it.
What this page covers
The page walks through the main memory layers that matter in real agent systems:
- raw conversation or document capture
- memory extraction into smaller reusable units
- retrieval across text and multimodal material
- update logic for facts that change over time
- source grounding when the agent needs the original evidence again
How to use it
Start with the high-level flow first, then use the deeper views to compare retrieval, updates, and memory policy. The goal is not just to memorise terms. It is to understand why "memory" in agents increasingly behaves like state management rather than simple search.