Why I Built a Brain for My AI Agents — and What It Taught Me About Memory

`--- title: "Why I Built a Brain for My AI Agents — and What It Taught Me About Memory" published: true description: "Anamnesis v0.3.0: The cognitive architecture that emerged when a physician stopped treating agent memory as an engineering problem and started treating it as a clinical one." tags: ai, opensource, agents, architecture cover_image: canonical_url: Anamnesis v0.3.0: The cognitive architecture that emerged when I stopped treating agent memory as an engineering problem and started treating it as a clinical one. Dr. Shweta Patel, MD, FACOG — Board-certified OB/GYN · U.S. Navy veteran (13 yrs) · CEO, Gaya Wellness · 43 AI-leveraged products TL;DR: Anamnesis is an open-source 4D strategic memory engine for autonomous AI agents. It stores judgment alongside facts — reasoning, authority, trust weight, and decay conditions. Version 0.3.0 adds four brain-inspired capabilities: attention gating, batch consolidation, context-mode retrieval, and prospective memory triggers. The cognit