Journal article
Newer Is Not Truer: Three Presuppositions Behind the Recency Rule in Long-Term Agent Memory, and Why Retaining Both Records Relocates the Decision Rather Than Making It
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. An agent with persistent memory writes its own records, and two of them can disagree. Across the published systems examined here the resolution runs in one direction: the newer record supersedes the older. This paper argues that the direction…