Plumbing Calculus Enables Agent Memory Compaction

William Waites, in a guest post, explains a session-typed plumbing calculus implementation that manages memory compaction for LLM agents. He demonstrates a homunculus agent that monitors telemetry, pauses the bot, retrieves and summarizes context, and restores a compacted memory via an eight-step protocol. The approach enables modular, type-checked, swappable memory-management strategies for experimenting with truncation and summarization trade-offs.
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