Agent memory can preserve poisoned context

Agents that remember across sessions can also remember something an attacker planted.

A single malicious instruction absorbed into persistent memory keeps influencing behaviour long after the conversation that introduced it, and nobody is looking at the memory. It turns a one-off injection into a durable one. If an agent has memory, that memory needs the same scrutiny as any other stored input, including the ability to inspect and clear it.

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