Why it matters

Short-term memory shapes conversational agents. Standard pattern.

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The architecture

Store: session-scoped conversation history.

Retrieval: last N turns.

Summarize when long.

Short-term memoryTurn Nuser + assistantSession storein-memory or RedisRetrievelast k turnsSession-scoped; can persist to Redis for HA + resumption
Short-term memory.
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How it works end to end

Storage: session in-memory or Redis.

Retrieval: last k turns or summarized older.

Cleanup on session end.