How to retain CrewAI Short-Term Memory with Azure OpenAI Embeddings?

Question

I'm working on implementing CrewAI's short-term memory feature, but it's not behaving as expected.

embedder_config = {
    "provider": "openai", 
    "config": {
        "api_key": "XXXXXXX",
        "api_base": "https://xxxx.openai.azure.com/",
        "api_type": "azure",
        "api_version": "2024-02-01",
        "model_name": "xxxxx", 
        "deployment_id": "xxxx"  
    }
}

# Create ShortTermMemory with embedder
self.short_term_memory = ShortTermMemory(embedder_config=embedder_config)

# Create crew with custom short-term memory
self.crew = Crew(
    agents=[self.agent],
    tasks=[],
    memory=True,
    short_term_memory=self.short_term_memory,
    verbose=False
)

The memory system initializes without errors, but the agent doesn't seem to retain context from previous conversations as expected.

How can I successfully implemented CrewAI's short-term memory with Azure OpenAI embeddings?

Any guidance, documentation links, or working examples?

Answer 1 · 2025-10-28 14:02:33Z

Dan Getz

• Oct 28 at 14:02

Could you log the short term memory contents right before you generate the response? That ought to help with debugging—see if it's similar to what you were expecting, or what's different.

Answer 2 · 2025-10-28 21:05:33Z

NoDataDumpNoContribution

• Oct 28 at 21:05

"the agent doesn't seem to retain context" How did you get this impression? Could it be that it still does?

Answer 3 · 2025-10-29 05:01:47Z

iamhimanshu0

• Oct 29 at 5:01

the agent is not able to remember previous context, but based on the CrewAi document it should able to remember previous context,

Answer 4 · 2025-10-31 15:20:21Z

Dan Getz

• Oct 31 at 15:20

We don't need you to simply repeat that you perceive a problem—we understood that from your first post. We were asking for more details on what you see, and suggesting ways to debug it further.

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