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Agent Memory, Planning & Reflection

What separates an agent from a chatbot: somewhere to keep state beyond the context window, a way to break goals into steps, and the habit of checking its own work. Memory stores and retrieval, plan-then-execute loops, and reflection passes are the current toolkit, all still far from solved.

Key terms

Long-term memoryTask decompositionReflectionScratchpadContext management

Where you meet it in the real world

Coding agents that survive long tasks, personal assistants that remember you, research agents

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