Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering — Ignacio Martinez, Oracle

This talk presents a novel seven-layer harness engineering framework for agents, arguing that control and memory are paramount, not just the language model itself. It highlights the critical role of physical memory location, advocating for databases over files for transactional consistency in parallel agent execution. The concept of 'Umwelt' is introduced to define an agent's perceptual lens, and 'skill promotion' is proposed as a mechanism for workflow optimization and retirement. A hysteresis variable for controlling model patience is also detailed.