Knowing the Store: What a Memory Backend Must Write Down Before an Agent Can Read It

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arXiv:2610.04794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent with long-term memory can answer from a record it should no longer use, such as a plan the user later cancelled. We ask what a memory store must expose for an agent to know this before retrieving anything, and we score that judgment on its own, as metamemory monitoring. Readers see only a value-free summary: record counts by lifecycle state and a list of attribute names. Each of 148 questions is asked against three versions of one store th