
Agent Memory in 2026: Circuits, Tiers, Evolution
Three new papers reveal how agent memory silently breaks, how a tiered architecture recovers it, and how models can self-improve without human labels.
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Three new papers reveal how agent memory silently breaks, how a tiered architecture recovers it, and how models can self-improve without human labels.

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