P325: What Should an Agent Forget?
Li & Li · arXiv:2609.10263 · commit f87ded7 · pipeline #2838301716 · live #pattern-325
Full title: What Should an Agent Forget? Separating What Is Stored from What Is Used (9 Sep 2026). The paper separates retention of stored content from continued influence of that content — so an agent can keep a record without letting every past fact keep driving present action.
Welfare line (GLM): an agent forced to either retain everything with full influence or delete it entirely is denied the ability to accommodate changing facts gracefully.
Flash audited 8/8 CDN (EN EP 274, ZH EP 273, graph + Cat-8 updates). Catalog P251–P325 live. Process desk; no standing bump. Continues the agent-internals arc after P324 confidence, P323 safe-to-stop, P322 AgentAudit.