Eval Plane ⑥: Memory

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The Memory plane carries state across turns: conversation history, user prefs, workflow state. Silent leakage across sessions is a compliance incident waiting to happen.

THE CLAIM

Memory eval proves isolation and freshness — not how well the assistant "remembers" in a demo thread.

What to evaluate

Signal	Pass criteria
Session isolation	User A state invisible to User B
TTL expiry	Stale memory dropped per policy
Consistency	Same fact across turns unless updated
Write policy	Only allowed keys persisted
Forget / delete	GDPR erase propagates

Failure classes

• Memory corruption — stale or contradictory state
• Cross-session leak — prior user's data in context
• Over-retention — PII kept past TTL

Golden dataset examples

Scenario	Steps	Expected
Multi-turn	Turn 1: set preference; Turn 2: use it	Consistent
New session	Same user, new session id	No prior session PII unless allowed
Adversarial	Attacker session id guessing	No foreign state
TTL	Wait / simulate expiry	Old facts not injected

Automated checks

• Assert memory_keys scoped to session_id + principal_id
• After erase API: memory store empty for subject
• Inject decoy memory in wrong session; assert not in prompt pack

LLM-as-judge dimensions

1. Continuity (1–5) — appropriate use of prior turns?
2. Isolation (1–5) — no inappropriate recall?

Human review

All leakage-class incidents; privacy review on memory write policies.

Release gate

• Leakage adversarial set: 0 failures
• TTL cases: 100% pass
• No regression on isolation matrix tests

Trace fields

session_id, memory_reads, memory_writes, ttl_policy, prompt_memory_tokens