Topic

Memory & Context

Context engineering for AI agents: memory architectures, retrieval, context windows, and the techniques that keep long-running agents coherent.

16 articles
Context Engineering for AI Agents: Memory, Retrieval, and the WindowPillar

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Memory, RAG & MCP

Why the context window, not the prompt, is the real bottleneck, and how to engineer memory, retrieval, and MCP around it.

21 minJune 15, 2026
Why Memory Bandwidth, Not Compute, Now Sets LLM Inference CostMemory & Context

Why Memory Bandwidth, Not Compute, Is the LLM Inference Bottleneck

Compute grew ~80x in a decade while bandwidth grew ~17x, and the KV cache turns every decoded token into a memory fetch.

12 minJune 28, 2026
On-Device AI Infrastructure: Why Memory Bandwidth, Not TOPS, Decides What ShipsMemory & Context

On-Device AI's Real Bottleneck Isn't the Chip. It's the Memory

Silicon hit 80 TOPS in 2026, but bandwidth, battery, thermals, and routing logic are what actually gate your local inference deployment.

12 minJune 26, 2026
Long Context vs RAG: When to Stop Chunking DataMemory & Context

Long Context vs RAG: Stop Chunking at the Right Time

Million-token windows changed the default, but retrieval still wins when citations, query volume, and latency matter.

11 minJune 22, 2026
Vector Database Comparison: Pick the Store Your Ops Can RunMemory & Context

Vector Database Comparison: Speed Is the Trap

Production RAG teams should choose a vector store by operating model, filter shape, and migration triggers, not by a vendor latency chart.

12 minJune 22, 2026
Production RAG Chunking Breaks at the BoundaryMemory & Context

Production RAG Chunking Breaks at the Boundary

Semantic chunking helps when boundary errors dominate retrieval failures, but fixed and structure-aware chunks still win when latency, auditability, or corpus shape matters more.

11 minJune 21, 2026
Memory Poisoning: The Agent Attack That Survives a ResetMemory & Context

Memory Poisoning: The Agent Attack That Survives a Reset

OWASP ASI06 corrupts an agent's stored state once and it acts on the lie forever. Here's how the attack works and the defenses that actually hold.

11 minJune 19, 2026
AI Agent Memory Got Crowded in 2026. Here's What Actually ShippedMemory & Context

AI Agent Memory Got Crowded. Here's What Shipped

Four managed agent-memory layers launched in seven weeks. We map who's GA, who's billing, and why the benchmark numbers don't survive an independent harness.

8 minJune 18, 2026
Context Graphs: The Missing Layer Between Your Tools and Your AgentsMemory & Context

Context Graphs: The Missing Layer Between Tools and AI Agents

Why flat RAG breaks agentic workflows, what a bi-temporal context graph actually is, and how to build one that holds up in production.

12 minJune 18, 2026
Neural memory abstraction: the new layer in AI agent context managementMemory & Context

Neural Memory Abstraction: Context Management for AI Agents

Why the best agent teams are replacing prompt-stuffing and flat RAG with structured, writeable memory layers that combine graphs, vectors, and learned controllers.

9 minJune 12, 2026
What is MCP? The Model Context Protocol, explained for 2026Memory & Context

What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol Explained for 2026

A plain-language guide to the protocol every major AI vendor now ships, plus a working server you can build in ten minutes.

10 minJune 12, 2026
Beyond Context Length: Modular Context Windows and the Future of AI Agent ReasoningMemory & Context

Modular Context Windows: The Future of AI Agent Reasoning

The race for million-token prompts is over. Production agents won with tiered, modular context instead, and the benchmark evidence now backs them up.

11 minJune 11, 2026
Multi-Hop Reasoning vs. Single-Hop Retrieval: Which Scales Better for AI Agents in 2026?Memory & Context

Multi-Hop Reasoning vs Single-Hop Retrieval for AI Agents

Multi-hop agents win on accuracy, single-hop wins on cost, and the teams that scale are the ones routing between both.

11 minJune 11, 2026
Beyond Vector Databases: Hybrid Context Storage for LLM Agents in 2026Memory & Context

Hybrid Context Storage: Vector + Graph Databases for LLM Agents

A DeepMind proof shows single-vector retrieval is provably lossy. The fix isn't a bigger embedding model, it's pairing vector databases with graph traversal.

10 minJune 11, 2026
Is Agent Memory the Wrong Abstraction? The 2026 EvidenceMemory & Context

Is the AI Agent Memory Layer the Wrong Abstraction? 2026

The mem0-versus-critics fight isn't about who's right. It's about two evidence classes that never intersect, and you're the one stuck translating.

10 minJune 11, 2026
Context Rot and the Dumb Zone: Engineering Around the 100k-Token WallMemory & Context

Context Rot and the Dumb Zone: Engineering Past 100k Tokens

Bigger context windows didn't fix attention. Past roughly 100k tokens agents get lost in the middle, and the fix is architectural, not bigger.

11 minJune 10, 2026