intermediateSpring AI — Core, ChatClient & RAG

How do you implement conversation memory in Spring AI?

Use MessageChatMemoryAdvisor with a ChatMemory implementation (InMemoryChatMemory for dev, a Redis/DB-backed one for production), passing a conversationId per session — the advisor appends prior messages to the prompt automatically. Order matters: add the memory advisor before any RAG advisor.

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