How To Cure Your AI Agent From Its Digital Amnesia (using mem0) 🧠

You know what’s absurd?! The fact that we've built models that can generate poetry, write code, and plan trips, but can't remember basic things about you from one minute to the next. Well lucky for us, this is just the problem mem0 is here to solve! 🥳

In this blog, we will explore the use of mem0 in an agentuity agent built by Joel Samuel. Feel free to explore the example yourself here and browse our other examples on GitHub.

The Anatomy of a Forgetful Agent 🕵️‍♂️

To see the problem in action, let's look at our Best Buy customer service agent. At its core, it’s a standard AI agent that uses a prompt to understand the user's needs and consult a product database. The magic 🪄 is supposed to happen in how it constructs this prompt. The agent's code is designed to inject previous conversation history directly into the prompt, giving it context.

Here’s a simplified look at the crucial piece of code:

# ... inside the agent's main function ...

# Get relevant memories from previous conversations
memory_context = "" # we have no memories yet...

# Build the prompt for the AI
prompt = f"""Answer the user question considering the previous interactions:

Previous interactions:
{memory_context}

Question: {user_question}"""

# ... sends prompt to the AI model ...

As you can see, there's a specific place, {memory_context}, where the agent's memory is supposed to go. When this is empty, the agent has no recollection of what was said before. This leads to frustratingly repetitive conversations, like this one:

The Cure: Prescribing mem0 💊

Now, let’s administer the cure. Curing our agent's amnesia with mem0 requires just a few lines of code. We'll replace our empty memory_context with a dynamic memory search and then save the new interaction at the end.

Step 1: Initialize the Memory Client

First, at the top of our file, we initialize the MemoryClient. This one-liner gives our agent access to its long-term memory. To connect, you'll need a MEM0_API_KEY. You can get one for free by signing up at mem0.ai.

from mem0 import MemoryClient
from dotenv import load_dotenv  
  
load_dotenv() 

memory_client = MemoryClient()

Step 2: Retrieve Relevant Memories

Next, instead of leaving memory_context empty, we use our client to search for relevant memories based on the user's current question. This single call fetches the most relevant snippets from past conversations.

# ... inside the agent's main function ...

# Get relevant memories from previous conversations
relevant_memories = memory_client.search(user_question, user_id="mem0-demo-agent")
memory_context = "\n".join([m["memory"] for m in relevant_memories])

# The prompt now automatically includes relevant context!
prompt = f"""Answer the user question considering the previous interactions:

Previous interactions:
{memory_context}

Question: {user_question}"""

# ...

Step 3: Store the New Conversation

Finally, after the agent generates a response, we add the latest exchange (both the user's question and the AI's answer) to its memory. This ensures that the context from this interaction is available for all future conversations.

# ... after the AI has generated an answer ...

# Store interaction in memory for future context
new_interaction = [
    {"role": "user", "content": user_question},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": answer}
]
memory_client.add(messages=new_interaction, user_id="mem0-demo-agent")

And that's it! With these three simple steps, our agent is cured.

See The Memory in Action 🚀

One of the coolest parts about using mem0 is that you can actually see the memory being built in real-time. Head over to your mem0 dashboard after you run the agent, and you'll see a log of every memory that's been added. It's a great way to debug and understand exactly what your agent is remembering. Feel free to explore it!

The Result: An agent that remembers ✨

With the mem0 treatment administered, look at the difference it makes. The agent now remembers the user's budget and preferences across multiple turns, leading to a much more helpful and intelligent interaction.

Conclusion 🏁

By giving our agent the ability to remember, we've transformed it from a stateless tool into a genuinely helpful assistant. This is the power of adding a memory layer: it unlocks the personalized, context-aware experiences that users have always wanted from AI.

Go explore mem0. It's an amazing tool, we recommend it!

Resources:

• Dive deeper into the mem0 documentation here.
• Explore the full code for this example on the Agentuity GitHub here.
• A special thanks to Joel Samuel for building this great demo agent.

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