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Is LLM agent memory just a tool call to a database?

Answered from AI Interview #2 - Context in LLMs with @aloo_explains · Gaurav Sen · 2026-07-26

Partly, in Tanishq's answer on Gaurav Sen's channel. When Gaurav asks why memory is not simply called a tool call, Tanishq agrees that retrieving it is a tool call, but says memory refers to the storage itself. That storage needs a database, and Tanishq names Redis and Postgres as common choices.

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