What is the point of memory if the agent can ignore it?[D]

Most agent systems treat memory as advisory. The agent reads past context, but nothing forces it to follow it. So memory becomes a suggestion, not a constraint. I’ve been thinking about the opposite direction: what if memory was enforced at the system level? Not “the agent remembers X” but “the system rejects actions that contradict X” For example: memory says: user preference = vegetarian agent suggests: order chicken In most systems → allowed In this model → rejected So memory stops being context and becomes part of system state.