AI Agents & Applications · advanced · concept 259 of 311 · Updated Nov 4, 2026
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.
Top AI contributors on this
- Jakub PachockiOpenAI
- Shengjia ZhaoMeta Superintelligence Labs
- Mark ChenOpenAI
Key terms
Long-term memoryTask decompositionReflectionScratchpadContext management
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