Definition
Conversation History is the stateful record of prior interactions between a user and an agent, injected into the prompt to provide temporal context. In RAG, it allows the system to resolve anaphoric references (e.g., 'What about its price?') by re-writing queries based on previous turns, balancing the trade-off between context depth and token-limit constraints.
Refers to the operational memory window used for reasoning, not long-term archival storage or audit logging.
"A rolling teleprompter that only displays the last five minutes of a script to an actor to keep them in character."
Conceptual Overview
Conversation History is the stateful record of prior interactions between a user and an agent, injected into the prompt to provide temporal context. In RAG, it allows the system to resolve anaphoric references (e.g., 'What about its price?') by re-writing queries based on previous turns, balancing the trade-off between context depth and token-limit constraints.
Disambiguation
Refers to the operational memory window used for reasoning, not long-term archival storage or audit logging.
Visual Analog
A rolling teleprompter that only displays the last five minutes of a script to an actor to keep them in character.