What Is Agent Memory? A Beginner’s Guide for AI Developers

TL;DR: Agent memory is stored state an AI agent can retrieve across sessions to maintain continuity. A bigger context window does not fix the problem. Once memory has to persist, be scoped to the right user, and be retrieved reliably, it becomes a data problem, and is often best handled in a database such as Oracle AI Database. Why This Matters You can build a convincing AI agent surprisingly fast. Give it a model, wire up a few tools, and it can look sharp in the first session. Then the user co