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Retrieval

Smart Context Assembly: Fewer Tokens, Better Quality

Today we're announcing Smart Context Assembly, an upgrade to how Zep's default Context Block is built: higher accuracy from fewer tokens, with no code changes.

Context graphs

Observations: Patterns and Insights from the Context Graph

Observations are a new context type in Zep that capture patterns and insights across your Context Graphs, automatically discovered and surfaced to agents.

Context engineering

Zep's 5 Context Types: How to Use and Combine Each One

Zep produces five distinct types of context from a user's graph. Each captures something different. Here's when to reach for each, and how to combine them in one prompt.

Governance and security

Context You Can Trace, Filter, and Trust

Every fact in your agent's context graph came from somewhere. Zep's provenance architecture traces facts back to their source data — and lets you filter retrieval by origin.

Context engineering

Stop Letting Your Agent Decide What It Needs to Know

Your agent has the tools. It just doesn't call them — and smarter models won't fix that. Here's why the unknown unknowns problem is the hardest challenge in agent context, and what to do about it.

Context engineering

3 Decisions That Shape Every Agent's Context Architecture

Every agent context architecture comes down to three decisions: scope, data sources, and retrieval strategy. A framework for reasoning about persistent context for AI agents.

Benchmarks and evaluation

Evaluation and Control: Evaluation Framework, zepctl CLI, and Dashboard Overhaul

An evaluation framework for testing Zep against your data, a redesigned dashboard with analytics, and zepctl — a CLI for administering Zep projects.

Context graphs

Build Better Context Graphs: Custom Instructions, Search Filters, and Webhooks

Custom extraction instructions, property-level search filters, exclusion filters, and webhooks — more control over how you build and query context graphs.

Context engineering

Context Templates: Context Engineering Made Simple

You're tuning an agent. Retrieve too little context and it hallucinates.

Benchmarks and evaluation

The Retrieval Tradeoff: What 50 Experiments Taught Us About Context Engineering

Zep builds temporal knowledge graphs from conversations and business data, then automatically retrieves relevant context when your agent needs it.

Context graphs

How Zep Works: A Visual Guide to Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

Agents don't fail because the model is bad. They fail because they don't have the right context.

Integrations

Building Voice Agents with Memory: Zep x LiveKit

Create personalized voice agents with long-term memory with minimal added latency

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