Agent Frameworks

How do you handle session state and memory persistence for agents?

QUICK ANSWER

Store conversation history in a database keyed by session ID, load recent turns during requests, and summarize old messages to fit the context window.

Memory Persistence Workflow

  1. Save every message turn (both user and assistant roles) to your database.
  2. For each request, load the database array to construct your API payload.
  3. Implement a sliding window: if the token count exceeds 150,000, trigger Claude to summarize the oldest 50% of the conversation and replace them with a single summary message.
Verified against: Anthropic Memory Engineering Guidelines