# Retrieval as Traversal: Value-Indexed Memory for Stateful Long-Context Agents

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40545
Published: 2026-10-29
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Long-context models repeatedly solve closely related retrieval problems. Attention or global retrieval can retain large stores, but each forward pass again searches for what matters.

## Review question

Compare accepted end-to-end outcomes, tool permissions, intervention rate, recovery behavior and total cost on the same workload. A polished demo does not establish unattended reliability.

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