Memory Deduplication overview

Memory Deduplication as a cross-cutting topic — strategies for detecting and removing duplicate memory entries across extraction cycles. Covers SHA-256 content-addressable dedup (exact match, used by agentmemory), semantic dedup (embedding similarity threshold, used by auto-dream consolidation), and hybrid approaches that combine exact and semantic matching. Without deduplication, auto-memory systems accumulate redundant entries that waste context window space and dilute retrieval quality. The key trade-off is between aggressive dedup (risking loss of subtly different memories) and conservative dedup (accumulating near- duplicates that clutter retrieval results).