Agent State & Memory
Conversation History Truncation Strategies for Multi-Session Agents
Keeping agents sharp means managing what they remember, not just how much.
Tariq Osei-Mensah · October 4, 2026 · 11 min read
Staff Writer
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Keeping agents sharp means managing what they remember, not just how much.
Webhooks let agents react instantly instead of waiting for slow polling cycles.
Token-aware limits replace request counts to match what agents actually consume.
How four separate clocks in agent pipelines create mysterious timeouts and cascading failures.
Classify every tool call as safe or unsafe to retry before writing any retry logic.
FIFO queuing breaks down when dozens of agents run concurrently in production systems.
Five scheduling patterns solve most AI agent deployment challenges in production.
Proper schema and bus design prevent agents from duplicating work and burning tokens on nothing.