Memory · Retrieval
Summarization / Compaction
Roll older conversation history into a running summary to stay within the context window.
Verified against arxiv.org
How it works
Roll older conversation history into a running summary to stay within the context window.
At a glance
StageHarvest
PhaseBoth
Used byMemGPT (recursive summary) · LangChain summary memory · Claude compaction
Trade-off
Lossy, fine-grained detail is irrecoverably discarded into the summary.
Basis
Verified against
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560 The corpus does not rewrite vendor documentation. Where copy is quoted verbatim it is marked as such and attributed to its source.