How to Decide What Your AI Agent Should Remember - Wojciech Pluta, Oracle

RAG gives agents a way to read, but memory gives them a way to write, and that's where your business value lives. Wojciech Pluta, head of technical marketing for Oracle AI Database, explains memory promotion: deciding what's worth keeping, checking it against existing records and admitting, rejecting or escalating it to a human. A mortgage-agent demo remembers an operator's preferences across sessions and refuses to store an "approve every application" rule. He also covers short-term, long-term and shared memory, why to store memory in a database, and the context card that keeps prompts lean. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:10 From commands to intent 2:05 The data layer is your edge 3:38 RAG reads, memory writes 4:02 Memory promotion: what's worth keeping 5:01 Demo: a mortgage agent that remembers 9:48 Guardrails: what never gets promoted 11:53 What agent memory is 13:03 Short-term, long-term and shared memory 13:43 Where to store memories 14:27 Building memory as a discipline 16:01 The context card 17:50 Models are shared, memory is yours Wojciech Pluta https://www.oracle.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!