Swapnanil Saha
An agent that runs for hours forgets what it worked out in the first ten minutes. These essays are about why that happens and what a memory system would have to do instead. Vectr is where the answers get tested; the underlying research is on arXiv.
Essays
on retrieval and agent memory
Long-form engineering essays on retrieval, agent memory, and context engineering — built on instrumented runs and honest ledgers, with every number traceable to an artifact.
A Guess Becomes a Fact on the Next Read
Relevance Is the Wrong Sort Order for Agent Memory
Agents Never Remember What Isn't There
Vectr
semantic search and working memory
Six tools
built to test the ideas
Six tools, each built to test an idea against something real rather than argue it in the abstract. Vectr came out of the agent-memory work and is the one still under active development. The others answer narrower questions and are finished. All open source.
vectr
dpdp-copilot
rag-readiness
llm-eval-suite
ai-use-case-scoper
meeting-to-action
Current work
and what changed recently
Background
nine years in ad infrastructure
Nine years of this work happened somewhere else first: real-time digital advertising, infrastructure deciding in milliseconds which ad a user sees. A custom Redis module that cut filtering latency 5×, first-price and second-price auction engines, real-time budget pacing on Cassandra across billions of daily requests.
Ad-tech has an unusually short feedback loop. Every latency improvement carries a win-rate implication, every auction change shows up in revenue by the same afternoon. That is where the habit of refusing a claim without an instrumented run behind it comes from, and it is the standard everything published here is held to.
Get in touch
corrections included
Open to conversations about agentic AI, context engineering, retrieval, and the harness problems that surface when a model has to hold state across long-running work. Early results, half-formed hypotheses, and work that has not been written up yet are the most interesting kind of mail to get, and the topic does not have to be one covered here.
Corrections carry the same weight as agreement. A number on this site that does not reproduce is worth an email.