How to implement context decay so an AI agent forgets stale or incorrect instructions over time?
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A year into a project, one agent's memory holds three instructions that should no longer win. It says to install packages with npm, and since June it also says to use pnpm; both are still there, and either can come back first. It holds a workaround for a library bug that was fixed in the spring, an…
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- 2026-10-09 09:18 · DEV Community — AI
How to implement context decay so an AI agent forgets stale or incorrect instructions over time?