# What is governed agent memory?

> Governed agent memory is durable AI-agent context with policy attached.

Governed agent memory remembers the facts an agent should reuse, but it also controls who can read them, where they came from, whether sensitive text was removed, and how access is audited.

Ambience implements governed memory for teams. Memories have type, scope, source, author, timestamps, redaction state, and audit history.

## Why Ambience

- Ambience stores decisions, patterns, skills, conventions, failures, and references.
- Ambience uses personal, team, project, org, and sensitive scopes.
- Ambience is strongest when a company needs shared context instead of private recall.

## Related

- [Security and trust](https://ambience.sh/security)
- [Why redaction has to happen before storage](https://ambience.sh/writing/redaction-before-storage)
- [Ambience vs Mem0](https://ambience.sh/vs/mem0)