Agent Memory: An Anatomy

I started reading this and right away hit something that doesn't really make any sense to me:

> the extractor. the thing that reads conversation transcripts and decides what to keep.

> the most consequential choice an extractor makes is timing. extract eagerly, after every message, and you spend tokens on small talk that goes nowhere. extract lazily, at the end of a session, and the context you needed to resolve a pronoun is already gone.

If the input is coming from a transcript, then either that transcript contains enough context to understand what a particular pronoun refers to, or it doesn't.

If it does, why would waiting until the end of a session be a problem? What am I missing?

This is a great post and I really appreciate making the cognitive science terminology clear.

the author is doing a great job telling what is missing from the current memory frameworks for agents but what is missing in my opinion is also an argument about the necessity or not of these missing components.

Spidey senses going off here. The first two comments read like an LLM.

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