We're building agents that can read millions of documents, but still forget a video they watched yesterday.

One thing has felt odd to me while working with AI agents. We've gotten pretty good at giving them memory for text. They can search documentation, index repositories, retrieve past conversations, and even build long-term memory over time. Videos, though, are still treated as temporary input. The agent watches a recording, answers a few questions, and when the session ends, that understanding is usually gone. Next session, the same vid