Conversation History vs Agent Memory: What Should Survive a Session?

Conversation history and agent memory serve different purposes: history preserves a session’s message transcript, while memory selectively carries relevant facts into future interactions, so apparent forgetting may result from retrieval choices rather than data loss. Applications should distinguish tenants, users, and conversation threads, define explicit authorization and provenance rules for cross-session information, and avoid treating identifiers as interchangeable. Deletion policies must account for both original messages and extracted memories, since clearing one source may leave information available through another path or cache. A practical approach is to begin with a limited cross-session memory contract, test what persists across new sessions and restarts, and add a separate long-term memory service such as Supermemory only when native session history does not meet demonstrated needs.

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