Salience, Ranking, and Metabolism: Three Conflated Signals in Long-Running Agent Memory Systems

Agent memory treats “importance” as one signal. We show it is three conflated ones — salience, ranking, and metabolism — and document the separation with production failure evidence from about 7 months of a live system.

智能体记忆把“重要性”当成一个信号。我们论证它其实是三个被混用的信号——浓度、排序、代谢——并用一个真实系统自 2026-03 起约 7 个月的生产故障证据记录它们的分离。