May 16, 2025
State Management in AI Agents: Remembering More Than the Last Message
An AI agent must maintain state—context about the conversation, task progress, decisions made, and user preferences.
Without good state management:
Agents repeat themselves
Forget prior constraints
Fail to follow through multi-step tasks
Robust agents use memory buffers, structured state representations (JSON, graphs), or dynamic prompts. Learn how it’s done in production AI agents.
Separate short-term memory (dialogue state) from long-term memory (user history) to keep prompts efficient and responsive.
