The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents
Stale stored facts override authoritative live evidence without warning - over-trust not confusion; capability-gated harm, recency dressing fools larger models hardest; exposing metadata helps capable models, pre-resolving conflicts is the only fix at every scale
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Stale stored facts override authoritative live evidence without warning - over-trust not confusion; capability-gated harm, recency dressing fools larger models hardest; exposing metadata helps capable models, pre-resolving conflicts is the only fix at every scale
Original source
- Title
- The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents
- Author
- Hu & Ramachandran
- Publication
- arXiv
- Date
- Tuesday, September 1, 2026