agent-memory

A guide to chat history and memory in Agent Framework, covering how an agent keeps conversation context temporarily or in a separate data store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding conversation history, persistent storage, or personalized behavior to agents built with Agent Framework.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose how an agent should remember earlier messages and user information across conversations.

Agent for Codex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/managedcode/dotpilot/agent-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotPilot

Made for: Codex.

Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,742 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00011 $0.03742
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01871
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00374

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ab54e7d9e4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-memory scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to agent-memory — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.codex/skills/dotnet-microsoft-agent-framework/references/official-docs/user-guide/agents/agent-memory.md · 366 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 366 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Chat History and Memory

Agent chat history and memory are crucial capabilities that allow agents to maintain context across conversations, remember user preferences, and provide personalized experiences. The Agent Framework provides multiple features to suit different use cases, from simple in-memory chat message storage to persistent databases and specialized memory services.

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Chat History

Various chat history storage options are supported by Agent Framework. The available options vary by agent type and the underlying service(s) used to build the agent.

The two main supported scenarios are:

  • In-memory storage: Agent is built on a service that doesn't support in-service storage of chat history (for example, OpenAI Chat Completion). By default, Agent Framework stores the full chat history in-memory in the AgentThread object, but developers can provide a custom ChatMessageStore implementation to store chat history in a third-party store if required.
  • In-service storage: Agent is built on a service that requires in-service storage of chat history (for example, Azure AI Foundry Persistent Agents). Agent Framework stores the ID of the remote chat history in the AgentThread object, and no other chat history storage options are supported.

In-memory chat history storage

When using a service that doesn't support in-service storage of chat history, Agent Framework defaults to storing chat history in-memory in the AgentThread object. In this case, the full chat history that's stored in the thread object, plus any new messages, will be provided to the underlying service on each agent run. This design allows for a natural conversational experience with the agent. The caller only provides the new user message, and the agent only returns new answers. But the agent has access to the full conversation history and will use it when generating its response.

When using OpenAI Chat Completion as the underlying service for agents, the following code results in the thread object containing the chat history from the agent run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 366 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 366 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 1ab54e7d9e4a

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agent-memory is an agent published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotPilot (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 3,742 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to agent-memory, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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