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Half of my corrupted text was pure ASCII, and my character check passed it

I generate long documents as files and publish them with a script: reports, proposals, article bodies. The publisher never reads the sentences.

  • Two corruption forms undetected: fused words and ASCII characters
  • ASCII corruption appeared clean to checks, broke text when read
  • Python script failed to catch invisible corruption

How agents remember: five episodes and one lesson from each

Your agent "forgets" between sessions, drifts on stale exports, or eats the context window on raw API payloads. Often the fix is memory and context design rather than a model upgrade.

  • Treat memory as its own discipline with unique failure modes
  • Use controlled decay to remove unimportant or outdated information
  • Implement scoring system for memory recall based on relevance, recency, and importance

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