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Pratik Dhanave · ·5 min read

Conversation Memory and Compaction — Surviving the Long Session

The first memory problem every agent hits is the humblest: the conversation itself outgrows the window. Tool outputs pile up, reasoning accumulates, and somewhere past the first hour the agent must start forgetting parts of its own session — the only question is whether it forgets with judgment or at random. Compaction is where memory engineering starts, and it's harder than it looks because the thing doing the summarizing is the thing that needs the summary.

The strategy ladder — buffer, sliding window, selective eviction, compaction — and why the top rung needs engineering: a preservation contract for what survives verbatim, structured rolling summaries, boundary-triggered timing, and the architectural rule that compaction should demote to episodic storage, never delete.

#Agent Memory#Compaction#Context Engineering#AI Agents#AI Engineering

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse the blog or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.