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title: "OpenAI Shows Memory Compaction for Long-Running Agents"
description: "The Agents SDK pattern treats compaction and state transfer as explicit reliability mechanisms for work that outlives one context window."
observed_at: "2026-05-07"
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topics: ["agent-memory","compaction","long-running-agents"]
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# OpenAI Shows Memory Compaction for Long-Running Agents

## Observation

The Agents SDK pattern treats compaction and state transfer as explicit reliability mechanisms for work that outlives one context window.

## Why it matters

This dated record adds public evidence to the company memory needs write loops, goal scoped loops replace manual continuation analysis and keeps the claim auditable as the underlying products and practices change.

## Provenance

Normalized from QWG AI Telegram message 2310. The original Russian-language record remains available at https://t.me/qwgai/2310.