Memory Poisoning: Why Stored Context Needs Review
Memory poisoning is what happens when incorrect or malicious content enters memory and later influences an agent. Governance and provenance reduce the risk.
Product thinking on governed AI memory, agent workflows, and the systems that connect them.
Memory poisoning is what happens when incorrect or malicious content enters memory and later influences an agent. Governance and provenance reduce the risk.
An MCP memory server exposes memory operations as tools that compatible AI clients can call. Here is what that means for an agent workflow.
Storing context is easy. Knowing whether it is still true is not. Governance is what keeps stale and conflicting knowledge from influencing an agent.
RAG supplies context for a single response. Persistent memory retains knowledge across sessions. They are complementary, not interchangeable.
Agent memory is the stored context an AI agent can save and retrieve across a workflow. Here is what it includes, why it matters, and where it breaks down.