D$^2$ACCI: A Dual-Loop Diagnostic Protocol for Evidence-Preserving Agent Memory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17756v2
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:59:03 GMT
• Title: D$^2$ACCI: A Dual-Loop Diagnostic Protocol for Evidence-Preserving Agent Memory
• Abstract summary: D$2$ACCI protocol promotes, feature-flags, or rejects memory interventions based on paired evidence, protected-slice monitoring, and trace-level localizability.<n>We instantiate the protocol in MemStack and evaluate on three public benchmarks, achieving 93.59% on LoCoMo, 90.93% on LongMemEval, and 57.20% on PersonaMem-V2.
• Score: 10.177699115336425
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Memory is a key capability of LLM agents. Persistent memory extends this across sessions---enabling recall, revision, and personalization. Yet its multi-stage pipeline (ingestion, retrieval, filtering, generation) makes failures difficult to localize: end-to-end evaluation reveals that an error occurred, but not which stage caused it. Existing evaluations often report aggregate performance without paired statistical comparisons, slice-level non-regression checks, or stage-level diagnostic traces. We propose D$^2$ACCI (Diagnostic-Driven Artifact-based Closed-loop Controlled Iteration), a dual-loop protocol whose outer diagnostic gate promotes, feature-flags, or rejects memory interventions based on paired evidence, protected-slice monitoring, and trace-level localizability. We further introduce DCR, a graded observability metric that measures whether failures remain localizable, and D$^2$ACCI-Eval, a reusable artifact for gate replay. We instantiate the protocol in MemStack and evaluate on three public benchmarks, achieving 93.59% on LoCoMo, 90.93% on LongMemEval, and 57.20% on PersonaMem-V2. Five paired ablations show that supplement extraction, session-memory retrieval, and Forget Guard yield statistically significant gains (+1.9 to +3.7pp, all p $\le$ .003). In contrast, BM25/RRF is retained as a monitored feature flag---a distinction invisible to aggregate-only evaluation. A diagnostic audit shows enriched traces substantially improve root-cause agreement over result-only relabeling. Diagnostic artifacts reach 98--100% DCR@3 versus 0% for results-only logs. These results establish that robust memory-system iteration demands traceable, statistically grounded, and regression-aware evidence---exactly the gap D$^2$ACCI fills.

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