# What Should an Agent Remember? Disentangling Retention from Retrieval in Bounded-Memory Evaluation

**Published:** October 2, 2026
**Author:** Juli Huang
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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A persistent agent must decide both what to retain as information arrives and what to surface once a query appears, yet memory evaluations can confound these decisions by comparing methods that differ in both retention and selection. We build a streaming-recall benchmark…

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