MEMORY.md Every Turn? That’s Noise, Not Memory.

Full context feels safe until it isn’t. Here’s the engineering fork in the road — and real numbers from an open-source memory layer on OpenClaw. Stateless isn’t a feature. It’s the default bug. That’s the part nobody puts on the landing page: large language models don’t continue anything on their own. Every turn is a fresh sheet of paper — unless you shovel history back in. So the industry reached for two comforting reflexes: Crank the context window — pack in everything that might matter. Longe