
State and Persistence
Episodic Memory Retrieval in Production Agent Systems
Episodic memory lets agents learn from past sessions, unlike RAG or context windows.
Priya Anantharaman · September 30, 2026 · 11 min read
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Episodic memory lets agents learn from past sessions, unlike RAG or context windows.

Isolation, state, and scheduling choices decide whether agents survive production.

Choosing agent memory means trading accuracy against latency.

Fixed cloud-era scheduling breaks agent sessions, and runtime adaptation fixes it.