• Forgets important context between sessions
• Repeats the same onboarding or discovery work
• Accumulates enormous histories that become expensive or confusing
• Retrieves old information without knowing whether it is still current
• Mixes identity, instructions, project state, and reference material together
• Loses continuity when models, platforms, or interfaces change
• Cannot distinguish permanent knowledge from temporary working state
• Needs multiple agents to share some context without sharing everything
• Needs provenance for where remembered information came from
• Needs humans to inspect, edit, export, or repair memory safely