arXiv AI By Sizhe Zhou, Sheldon Yu, Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Siru Ouyang, Yizhu Jiao, Shijia Pan, Julian McAuley, Yu Zhang, Tong Yu, Jiawei Han

Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability

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arXiv:2607. 26637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deployed LLM agents increasingly keep their long-term memory as a filesystem: a directory tree of markdown files that the agent itself reads, writes, and reorganizes through generic file tools.

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