Storage Is Not Memory: A Retrieval-Centered Architecture for Agent Recall

ArXi:2605.04897v1 Announce Type: cross Extraction at ingestion is the wrong primitive for agent memory: content discarded before the query is known cannot be recovered at retrieval time. We propose True Memory, a six-layer architecture that shifts the center of the system from a storage schema to a multi-stage retrieval pipeline operating over events preserved verbatim. The full system runs as a single SQLite file on commodity CPU with no external database, vector index, graph, or