MCMA-OpenMemory memory profile
Type: agentic-system-analyses/types/agentic-system-memory-profile.md
Comparison rationale
The comparison covers retained content and access structures, not the entire runtime's persistence. In particular, external inference weights, deployment checkout state and static organizer instructions do not become acquired memory merely because a later request uses them. The included object inventory and its consumer distinctions follow MEM-RTE-library-authoring, MEM-OBJ-conversation-index, MEM-RTE-inspector-snapshot and MEM-OBJ-vault. File layout is a supported local storage finding, not a complete claim about remote adapters. Dense vectors are a form of retained representation; their encrypted JSON container does not establish a vector-database substrate (MEM-OBJ-semantic-vectors).
Reconciliation supersedes the epistemic canonical-memory, interaction-answer and thematic-summary object declarations with MEM-OBJ-explicit-memory, MEM-OBJ-interaction and MEM-OBJ-thematic-summary. It also supersedes the epistemic thematic route with MEM-RTE-thematic-sync. The profile uses these canonical destinations. The combined epistemic knowledge object remains a valid container; the profile uses its answer and metadata parts where force or form differs. Catalog classification remains a separate mechanism, not a duplicate summary route (EPI-RTE-catalog-classification).
The request-driven context chain is pull, including automatic choice of context within that request. Exact IDs, query embeddings, lexical relevance and recent-anchor filtering therefore do not populate the push-signal axis. The context builder's delivery is not proof that the model used the material; its connector policy asks for reference-only treatment (RT-RTE-context-supply, RT-BAP-memory-reference). Thematic browsing and diagnostic inspection are real later consumers without being generation routes (MEM-RTE-thematic-sync, MEM-RTE-inspector-snapshot).
Trace learning is classified at the automatic durable-update route, separately from improved capacity. Conversation discovery state is produced from recorded turns and shapes later context candidate lookup (MEM-OBJ-conversation-index). Catalog labels are automatically admitted from recorded conversational content and later choose thematic destinations (EPI-RTE-catalog-classification, MEM-RTE-thematic-sync). These support wired local yes findings even though no weight learning, benefit or exercised self-improvement is established. Raw diagnostic retention alone supplies no corresponding automatic revision consumer. No evidenced-absence records were supplied for the unresolved inventory, so none is converted into a local no. The system union retains yes but not complete learning coverage.
Thematic clipping is consolidation, not synthesis merely because it can lose a qualification. Fixed caps reduce the current discovery/diagnostic view without securely erasing historical content. Index rebuilds and primary-key/fingerprint collision checks do not alone establish dedup curation (MEM-RTE-thematic-sync, MEM-OBJ-context-traces, MEM-RTE-library-authoring). Optional model organization remains semantically unresolved: a no-invention instruction and JSON checks do not establish a concrete output's preservation or novelty (RT-RTE-explicit-capture).
Manual write agency applies only where the record identifies an explicit user content decision. It does not extend to model organization after that decision, or to generic owner-role calls whose principal could be software. Likewise, permission rules have enforcement force only at covered actor-aware APIs; knowledge validation and canonical recall use different eligibility policies (RT-CLM-permission-scope, MEM-BAP-knowledge-reuse, RT-RTE-ask-answer). These local distinctions prevent a single trust, approval or authority assertion for every retained part.
No source files were read for this classification. All warrants come from the supplied accepted records and their annotations; no new evidence or records were added. Findings retain implementation or capability strength, not observed operation or causal benefit.