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To formalize autonomous agent memory beyond context windows into operational storage tiers and empirically evaluate the efficiency of residency, paging, and promotion policies.

August 16, 2026Open Access

Agent Memory Allocation: Tiers and Policies of Effective Agent Memory

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RARashid Azarang

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Pre-registered systems evaluation reveals associative search outperforms curated progressive disclosure in autonomous agent memory systems, highlighting limits of persistent fact promotion.

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To formalize autonomous agent memory beyond context windows into operational storage tiers and empirically evaluate the efficiency of residency, paging, and promotion policies.
Formalized agent memory architectures using five operating system-inspired policies across four existing agent frameworks.
Conducted a pre-registered falsification benchmark on a single-operator agent ecosystem followed by a public replication across 141 documents and 120 frozen queries using mechanical adjudication.
Durable fact promotion rarely resulted in reuse, with only 2 of 157 eligible promoted files ever being re-read by the agent.
Associative search-then-read significantly outperformed curated layered disclosure on accuracy in initial tests (72.5% vs 47.1%, +25.5 percentage points) and in the powered replication (63.3% vs 50.8%, +12.5 percentage points).

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Rashid Azarang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817a01f2fb91fc834ad861 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21938412

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Pre-registered systems evaluation reveals associative search outperforms curated progressive disclosure in autonomous agent memory systems, highlighting limits of persistent fact promotion.

Agent Memory Allocation: Tiers and Policies of Effective Agent Memory

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Agent Memory Allocation: Tiers and Policies of Effective Agent Memory

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