GitHub · GH-600
Agent memory strategies
GH-600 · Lesson 8 of 16 · 1:10:00
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In this lesson
Prepare for the GH-600 exam (GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer). In this lesson: short-term, long-term, and external memory, where each kind of fact belongs (issues, pull requests, instructions, skills, logs, and artifacts), scoping memory with path-specific instructions and skills, Copilot Memory (public preview), and rules for expiration, pruning, and reset: artifact retention, the 28-day expiry of unused memories, summaries with links, and resetting a pull request when requirements change. Includes three original practice questions.
Preview the topics
- Every morning, Contoso’s team pastes the same coding conventions into its agent’s prompt. Where should the conventions live?
- Contoso’s payments rules are long, and the agent should read them only when it changes files under the payments folder. What should the team use?
- Halfway through an agent’s pull request, Contoso drops the original requirement for a new design. What should happen to the pull request?