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Agent memory, explained honestly

Guides on permission-aware retrieval, reviews of the tools in this space, and news from building a condensed context layer in the open.

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Letta Pricing: Questions to Ask Before Buying

A practical guide to letta pricing: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

mem0 pricing represented by a technical security and network photograph
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Mem0 Pricing: Costs and Questions to Ask

A practical guide to mem0 pricing: the questions, evidence and trial plan that make a sound decision.

Close-up of server cooling fans in a data center, standing in for the infrastructure enterprise MCP gateway buyers are now provisioning around
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Why Enterprise MCP Gateway Demand Is Rising in 2026

Real, sourced 2026 data on enterprise MCP gateway demand: analyst forecasts, funding rounds, and breach costs, not vendor search-volume claims.

A price tag on a piece of furniture, standing in for the shift in zep pricing now that self-hosting the community edition is no longer an option below Enterprise
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Zep Pricing After Community Edition: What It Costs Now

Zep pricing has no self-hosted tier below Enterprise. Flex runs about $1,250 a year. Here is what that means if you are still on Community Edition.

A scientist's hand arranging test tubes in a rack, representing the careful reproduction work behind agent memory benchmarks
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Agent Memory Benchmarks: Why Reproducing Them Matters

A published agent memory benchmark and an independent reproduction differed by nearly 20 points in 2026. What the gap measures, and our own trade-off.

Rows of rack-mounted server ports resembling a catalogued mcp registry index, with no indication of who is permitted to use each entry
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What an MCP Registry Does Not Do

The official mcp registry solves discovery. It does not solve who may call a server, or what a given caller is allowed to see once connected.

Software engineers reviewing an architecture diagram, reflecting how we made decisions building our agent memory layer
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What We Learned Building an Agent Memory Layer

Why entitlement scoring runs before freshness refresh in our agent memory layer, why memory carries a TTL, and why we are both an MCP server and client.

Rows of networking equipment with ethernet cables connected, representing the infrastructure behind mcp server memory
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MCP Server Memory: What the Protocol Actually Changes

What mcp server memory means in practice, the real adoption numbers behind the Model Context Protocol, and why memory over MCP matters.