SurrealDB Stream #36 - Why your AI agent forgets everything (and what we built to fix it)
Most AI agents can reason. Most can act. Most of them still can't remember - not properly. On Thursday 23 April, join Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Matthew Penaroza for the first look at Spectron: SurrealDB's agent memory layer. A structured context layer built directly into the database, not patched together on top of it. This is a code-first session - expect real queries, honest conversation, and a genuine look at what it actually takes to give your agents persistent, structured memory. š What we'll cover: ā¢ Why agent memory is broken - the fragmented memory tax, what it costs you in production, and why middleware isn't the answer ā¢ What Spectron is - knowledge graphs, entity extraction, temporal facts, and hybrid retrieval, all inside SurrealDB in a single ACID transaction ā¢ What it means for agentic systems - shared memory across agents, context that persists across sessions, and a layer your stack can actually rely on ā¢ Live code - Tobie shows how it works in practice š Links: surrealdb.com/platform/spectron
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Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.
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Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.
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What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.
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Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.
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Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.
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