Agents & Automation

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

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Title
The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents
Author
Hu & Ramachandran
Publication
arXiv
Date
Tuesday, September 1, 2026