AI RESEARCH

When to Forget: A Memory Governance Primitive

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2604.12007v1 Announce Type: new Agent memory systems accumulate experience but currently lack a principled operational metric for memory quality governance -- deciding which memories to trust, suppress, or deprecate as the agent's task distribution shifts. Write-time importance scores are static; dynamic management systems use LLM judgment or structural heuristics rather than outcome feedback.