Proactive agents via oscillating memory value
Reactive agents wait for you. Calendar apps fire on fixed clocks. This note proposes a middle path: give every memory an attached value function \(V_i(t)\). A clock tick recomputes values. When a memory’s value crosses a threshold — with hysteresis so it does not chatter — the agent may send you a short proactive message. The distinctive piece is an oscillatory revival term on top of ordinary exponential decay. Dormant but still-important memories periodically become candidates again (“I’ve been meaning to bring this up”), without requiring a user query and without nagging every hour....