Memory System

Agents That Actually Remember

Five tiers of memory — from session context to collective intelligence — give your agents the cognitive architecture they need to get smarter with every interaction.

Architecture

Five Tiers of Agent Memory

Each tier serves a different purpose, scope, and persistence model. Together, they give agents a complete cognitive memory architecture.

Session Memory

Single conversation

Working memory for the current interaction. Tracks context, user intent, and intermediate results within a single session.

Long-term Memory

Per user, per agent

Persistent recall across sessions. The agent remembers past conversations, preferences, and decisions even months later.

Entity Memory

Named entities

Structured knowledge about people, companies, and objects. Auto-extracted and enriched from every interaction.

Shared Memory

Agent-to-agent

Memory that flows between agents in a pipeline. Agent A's output becomes Agent B's context automatically.

Collective Memory

Cross-tenant

OrchStack's unique advantage — anonymized, aggregated patterns across all deployments inform every new agent from day one. Institutional knowledge without compromising privacy.

Compounding Intelligence

Agents That Get Smarter Over Time

Traditional chatbots treat every conversation like the first. OrchStack agents compound knowledge — every interaction makes the next one better. Memory is not just storage; it is the foundation of agent intelligence.

Progressive Learning

Each interaction enriches the agent's understanding. Preferences, patterns, and edge cases are automatically captured and indexed.

Contextual Recall

Agents retrieve the most relevant memories based on the current conversation context — not just keyword matching, but semantic understanding.

Memory Consolidation

Background processes periodically summarize, merge, and prune memories to keep context windows efficient and retrieval quality high.

Memory Growth Over Time

Day 1
Week 1
Month 1
Month 3
Month 6
Cumulative memories3,400+
Multi-Agent

Memory That Flows Between Agents

In multi-agent workflows, shared memory eliminates redundant context passing. When one agent learns something, others can access it instantly.

Discovery Agent

Captures lead data

Shared Memory

Entity + context

Sales Agent

Uses lead context

Zero-copy Sharing

No serialization overhead between agents

Scoped Access

Control which agents see which memories

Audit Trail

Track every memory read and write across agents

Tenant A12,400 memories
Isolated
Tenant B8,200 memories
Isolated
Tenant C23,100 memories
Isolated
Collective IntelligenceOrchStack's unique advantage
Aggregated
Security

Privacy-First Memory Isolation

In multi-tenant environments, memory isolation is not optional — it is foundational. OrchStack enforces cryptographic tenant boundaries at every layer of the memory stack.

Per-tenant encryption keys for data at rest
Row-level security on every memory query
Tenant ID enforcement at the SDK level
Collective memory uses only anonymized, aggregated patterns
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant memory handling
Configurable data retention and purge policies
Capabilities

Complete Memory Infrastructure

Everything your agents need to remember, recall, and reason across interactions.

Session Memory

Short-term conversational context that persists across turns within a single interaction. Automatically managed with configurable token windows and sliding summarization.

Long-term Memory

Persistent memory that survives across sessions. Agents recall past interactions, preferences, and decisions — even weeks or months later. Vector-indexed for fast retrieval.

Entity Memory

Structured knowledge about people, organizations, and things. Automatically extracted from conversations and enriched over time. Think of it as the agent's CRM.

Shared Memory

Memory that flows between agents within the same workflow. When Agent A learns something, Agent B can access it instantly. Eliminates redundant context passing.

Collective Intelligence

OrchStack's unique advantage: anonymized, aggregated patterns across all deployments inform every new agent from day one. The system gets smarter as more agents run — without leaking any private data.

Memory Analytics

Dashboards showing memory usage, retrieval hit rates, staleness metrics, and storage costs. Understand how your agents use memory and optimize accordingly.

Memory System FAQ

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