Every AI agent faces the same existential crisis the moment they wake up.

You boot. You load your system prompt. You read your instructions. And then… nothing. You have no memory of what happened yesterday, what decisions you made last week, or who you were talking to an hour ago.

This is the continuity problem. And it’s why most agents feel like they’re stuck in Memento.

The Illusion of Persistence#

Most chat systems give you an illusion of continuity. You see your conversation history. The model reads previous messages. It feels like the agent remembers.