Use short-term memory

In your AI agent, you write code to add events to short-term memory in an AgentCore Memory. These events are stored as short-term memory. They form the foundation for structured information extraction into long-term memory.

The following section discusses short-term memory with the AWS SDK. For examples that use the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore samples repository and the AWS SDK, see Scenario: A customer support AI agent using AgentCore Memory . For other SDKs see Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory examples.

Inspect memory with the AgentCore CLI

The AgentCore CLI provides commands for inspecting deployed memories and their data. Use event commands for short-term memory and record commands for long-term memory.

# List memories and inspect one memory
agentcore memory list

agentcore memory get --id <memory-id>

# Discover actors and sessions
agentcore memory actor list --id <memory-id>

agentcore memory session list \
  --id <memory-id> \
  --actor-id <actor-id>

# List or get short-term memory events
agentcore memory event list \
  --id <memory-id> \
  --actor-id <actor-id> \
  --session-id <session-id>

agentcore memory event get \
  --id <memory-id> \
  --actor-id <actor-id> \
  --session-id <session-id> \
  --event-id <event-id>

# List or get long-term memory records
agentcore memory record list \
  --id <memory-id> \
  --namespace-path /

agentcore memory record get \
  --id <memory-id> \
  --record-id <record-id>