AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is episodic memory?
Episodic memory: A memory type that stores records of specific past events or task attempts, such as what happened, what was tried and how it ended. Agents retrieve similar past episodes to guide a new problem, much like recalling a previous experience.
Episodic memory: an example
An agent recalls a past run where a login failed because of an expired token and refreshes the token first this time.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Error recovery
- Escalation
- Evaluator-optimizer pattern
- Fallback
- Generative agents
- Grounding (agents)
- Guardrails for agents
- Human-in-the-loop
Where you learn it
Episodic memory is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.