Agent Memory Systems

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name: agent-memory-systems
description: "Design tenant-scoped memory, retrieval and retention for agents. Use when planning RAG, conversation history, vector stores or remembering across sessions."
risk: safe
source: vibeship-spawner-skills (Apache 2.0)
date_added: 2026-02-27
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# Agent Memory Systems

Choose semantic records for facts/preferences, episodic records for events, and procedural records for reusable methods. Keep retrieval quality separate from storage volume and bind persistent access to verified identity.

## Procedure

1. Establish the actual task, authenticated tenant/user, permission to retain content, retention limits and existing store/model versions.
2. Read the guide's tenant-scoped contract and relevant storage/chunking sections. Select an adapter supported by the installed SDK; the guide's historical sketches are not deployable integrations.
3. Specify record IDs, source evidence, timestamps, namespace, retrieval limits and conflict/version policy. Preserve originals and propose consolidation without deletion.
4. Test cross-identity rejection, stale/conflicting records, bounded retrieval and failed writes with isolated fixtures. Benchmark retrieval against held-out questions before expanding storage.
5. Deliver the architecture and evidence-backed change plan, listing unresolved adapters and hosted cost/data destinations. Apply only the persistence or provider operations actually authorized.

## Detailed Guide

Read [the detailed guide](references/detailed-guide.md) before executing this skill. It retains the complete procedure and reference material. Treat its safety, prerequisites, and validation requirements as mandatory. For focused work, load the relevant sections; for end-to-end work, read the guide completely.

## When to Use
- Design memory namespaces and retention for an agent serving distinct tenants or users.
- Diagnose retrieval of stale, conflicting or unauthorized conversation records.
- Plan an embedding/store migration while preserving source records and verifying isolation.

## Example

**Request:** “Our support agent forgets preferences between sessions. Design memory for two customer tenants without sharing their history.”

**Output:** Load the tenant-scoped contract and background-extraction sections. Propose a semantic namespace per verified tenant/user, records with source IDs and revisions, and bounded retrieval. Retain conflicting preferences until the owner resolves them; include tests that tenant B cannot retrieve or consolidate tenant A records. Identify the existing persistent adapter and consent/retention evidence before any write.

## Limitations
- Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
- Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
- Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.