Agent Memory Techniques: 30 Notebooks That Map the Memory Design Space for LLM Agents

What the repository is, and who the notebooks are written for

This is a collection of 30 runnable Jupyter notebooks about memory for LLM agents, published under Apache-2.0 and written for Python 3.10+. The README describes it as covering "conversation buffers, vector stores, knowledge graphs, episodic and semantic memory, working memory, MemGPT, Mem0, Letta, Zep, Graphiti, LoCoMo benchmarks, and production memory patterns." The problem it addresses is narrower than the title suggests. It is not solving memory retrieval in your agent; it is solving the absence of a comparable set of worked examples across memory designs. If you have read that Mem0, Zep or Graphiti exist and cannot say how a knowledge-graph memory differs from a vector store in code, the notebooks are the intended audience. The README offers two entry routes: start at 01 Conversation Buffer Memory, or pick a learning path. There is also a decision tree in the README, referenced as "Which technique do I need", for readers who want to choose before reading.

The mechanism is pedagogical: one notebook per technique

The repository layout is the architecture. Techniques live under all_techniques/, with each technique in its own directory (the README links to all_techniques/01_conversation_buffer_memory/ as the first). That means the unit of work is a self-contained notebook plus its assets, rather than a module you import. The data flow inside a notebook follows the technique it demonstrates: a conversation buffer keeps turns in a list, a vector store embeds and retrieves, a knowledge graph extracts entities and relations, and the named integrations call out to their respective libraries. Because the repository is Jupyter Notebook by primary language, there is no shared runtime to reason about. You read a notebook, run its cells, and observe the behaviour of the technique in isolation. That isolation is the point. It also means the notebooks do not compose into a single agent by default; if you want buffer memory plus graph memory in one process, assembling that is your work, not the repository's.

Getting a notebook running: environment and entry points

The README states Python 3.10+ and Jupyter. The practical path is to clone the repository, create a virtual environment with Python 3.10 or newer, install Jupyter, and open the notebook directory you want. The named entry point is all_techniques/01_conversation_buffer_memory/, and the README also exposes a learning path section for readers who want an ordered route. Beyond that, expect per-notebook dependencies: the topics list includes langchain, openai, anthropic, mem0, letta, zep, graphiti and at least one vector database, and each of those carries its own installation and its own API key requirements. The repository does not appear to centralise that. Treat every notebook as having its own setup step, and read its first cells before running anything that reaches a network.

Where the teaching format stops being enough

A notebook demonstrates a technique under conditions you control. Production memory has to survive conditions you do not: concurrent writers, partial failures during extraction, and retrieval that degrades as the store grows. The README lists "production patterns" among the covered topics, and there is a v1.0.0 release dated 2026-05-30, but whether those production patterns include operational concerns such as migration, backfill or eviction is worth checking before you rely on them. The other limitation is version drift. A notebook pinned to a library's API at the time of writing will not necessarily run against that library's current release, and this repository wraps several fast-moving projects. If a cell fails, the cause is as likely to be a changed constructor argument in Mem0 or Letta as it is to be your environment. Neither limitation is disqualifying for a learning resource. Both matter if you were hoping to lift a notebook into a service.

How it differs from the libraries it demonstrates

Mem0, Letta (the successor to MemGPT), Zep and Graphiti are all named in the topics and covered by notebooks. Each is a memory layer you install and call at runtime; each makes an opinion about storage and retrieval for you. This repository makes the opposite choice. It shows the options rather than choosing one, which is why a single repository can contain conversation buffers and knowledge graphs without contradiction. The practical difference: with Mem0 or Zep you get an API surface and an upgrade path, and you accept their extraction and retrieval design. With these notebooks you get the design space and no API surface. If your question is "which memory model fits my agent", the notebooks answer it. If your question is "how do I add memory to my agent this week", installing one of those libraries answers it, and the relevant notebook is useful mainly as a preview of what you are buying. The LoCoMo benchmark material is the closest the repository comes to evaluation, and the README does not state which systems are compared or on what hardware.

Licence, maintenance and the cost of keeping up

The repository is Apache-2.0, which permits commercial use and modification subject to the licence's notice and attribution conditions. That covers this repository's own content. It does not cover the third-party libraries the notebooks import, each of which carries its own licence, and some of the integrations may be hosted services with their own terms. Check those separately; nothing here is legal advice. On maintenance, the signals available are a v1.0.0 release in May 2026 and a last push in September 2026, so the repository is active. The cost you carry is not upgrade cost in the usual sense, because you are not deploying it. It is the cost of re-running notebooks when an upstream library changes, multiplied by the number of integrations you care about. The README also points to a paid course and a companion book, which tells you where the author's maintenance attention is partly directed. That is a normal arrangement for an educational repository, but it means the notebooks should be read as a snapshot of each library's API rather than a supported integration surface.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt this repository if you are choosing a memory architecture and need to see the trade-offs side by side before committing to a library. Do not adopt it if you need a memory layer you can import into a running service; the notebooks are demonstrations, and the README points at companion courses and a book rather than a package. Before you rely on any single notebook, verify its dependency versions against your own environment, check whether the notebook calls a hosted API or a local store, and confirm the licence terms of the third-party libraries it demonstrates separately from the Apache-2.0 terms of this repository.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. License: Apache-2.0
2. NirDiamant/Agent_Memory_Techniques on GitHub
3. Project website
4. README
5. Releases