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COMPEL Glossary / long-term-memory
Long-term memory
Persistent memory — typically implemented as a vector store — that survives across agent sessions.
What this means in practice
Long-term memory is the carrier for user-specific context and the attack surface for memory poisoning; governance concerns include retention policy, access control, and deletion on data-subject request.
Synonyms
persistent memory (agent) , agent long-term store
See also
- Short-term memory — The working context window an agent uses within a single task — prompts, retrievals, tool outputs, intermediate reasoning.
- Episodic memory — A form of long-term memory that recalls events from past sessions — "what happened when I ran last Tuesday" — analogous to human episodic memory.
- Semantic memory — Structured knowledge — typically a knowledge graph or ontology — that the agent can query for general facts rather than session-specific history.