Infrastructure

Agent memory is no longer one feature. It has split into several design camps: raw recall, profile memory, context filesystems, reflective memory, coding-agent memory, and enterprise context APIs. This guide maps the trade-offs, the real architectures, and the hype gap.

Agent-first tools are starting to look like a real software category. The common pattern is simple: products rebuilt around autonomous software users instead of humans. Email, phone numbers, browsers, memory, payments, APIs, and trust layers are all being redesigned around machine operators.