An AI assistant remembering last month’s arrangement can be helpful, until an old exception quietly becomes a new promise to a customer.

Working memory is not an authoritative business record. Useful context can become outdated, incomplete, or valid only for one specific situation.

Give retained context a source, scope, responsible owner, and review date. Keep the underlying record separate from the assistant’s recollection.

Before making a new commitment, review expired or conflicting memories against current evidence. Start with a workflow that drafts before it acts.

Test what happens when memory is wrong, and make forgetting part of the process. A remembered instruction should not become permanent authority.

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