AI Agents & Memory
Why persistent memory transforms AI agents from stateless tools into learning systems.
AI agents are only as good as their context. Without memory, every interaction starts from zero — no knowledge of your preferences, your projects, or what happened yesterday. MemNexus changes this.
The memory problem
Today's AI agents are powerful reasoners but terrible rememberers. They can write code, analyze data, and answer complex questions — but they forget everything the moment a conversation ends.
This creates three problems:
- Repeated context — You explain the same things every session
- Lost decisions — Important choices made during a conversation disappear
- No learning — The agent can't improve from past interactions
How MemNexus solves it
MemNexus gives your agents persistent memory through three interfaces:
| Interface | How it works |
|---|---|
| MCP | Agents call MemNexus tools natively via Model Context Protocol |
| SDK | Your application manages memory programmatically |
| CLI | You manage memory from the terminal alongside your agent |
With MemNexus, an agent can:
- Store what it learns during a session
- Search past knowledge before answering questions
- Recall your preferences and project context
- Build a knowledge graph of facts and relationships
- Learn patterns from your behavior over time
What makes this different
Cross-platform memory
Most AI platforms have some form of memory — but it's siloed. ChatGPT Memory only works in ChatGPT. Claude Projects only work in Claude. MemNexus works across all of them.
What Claude learns in one conversation, Cursor can recall in the next. What you discuss in ChatGPT, your custom agent can access via the SDK.
Structured knowledge
MemNexus doesn't just store raw text. It builds a graph of:
- Memories — Episodic records of what happened
- Facts — Structured knowledge (subject-predicate-object triples)
- Topics — Categorization and clustering
- Entities — People, tools, and concepts that appear across memories
This structure means agents can traverse relationships, not just search keywords.
Semantic search
When an agent searches memory, it searches by meaning. "That deployment issue from last week" finds relevant memories even without exact keyword matches. The hybrid search pipeline combines vector similarity with keyword matching for the best results.
Agent design patterns
MemNexus enables several powerful patterns for building memory-aware agents:
- Store-and-Recall — Save important context, retrieve it later
- Search-Before-Ask — Check memory before asking the user
- Progressive Learning — Build knowledge over multiple sessions
See Agent Patterns for implementation details.
Getting started
The fastest way to give your agent memory:
- MCP integration — If you use Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor, see MCP Integration
- SDK integration — If you're building a custom agent, see SDK Installation
- Prompt engineering — Copy-paste prompts that teach agents to use memory, see Prompt Library
Next steps
- MCP Integration — Connect via Model Context Protocol
- Prompt Library — Ready-to-use prompts for memory-aware agents
- Agent Patterns — Design patterns for memory-powered agents
- Platform Examples — Working examples for Claude, Cursor, and more