MEMORY HIERARCHIES FOR CONTEXT

LEARNING GOALS In Chapters 18 through 21 you learned that the window is small, that it can go bad, how to build it, and how to shrink it. This chapter completes Part Five by teaching you where information goes when it leaves the window. You will learn the idea of tiered storage, which sorts information by how quickly it must be reached. You will learn about structured note-taking, which gives the agent external memory it can write to. You will learn how to offload detail to files and retrieve it on demand, and how the harness moves information between tiers.