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Is Agent Memory Just RAG With Extra Steps? We Opened the Source Code to Find Out

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Under every agent memory launch, the same comment appears: "so it's RAG with extra steps." Instead of arguing, we opened the shipping source of mem0, LangGraph, Graphiti and Generative Agents at pinned commits and read the actual read and write paths. The answer is more interesting than either side…

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  1. 2026-08-27 15:14 · DEV Community — AI
    Is Agent Memory Just RAG With Extra Steps? We Opened the Source Code to Find Out

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