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# Search Short Term • AI Agent SDK

> search_short_term: Search short-term memory with optional quality/metadata/user filter

# search\_short\_term

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> This is a method of the [**Memory**](../classes/Memory) class in the [**memory**](../modules/memory) module.

Search short-term memory with optional quality/metadata/user filter

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def search_short_term(query: str, limit: int, min_quality: float, relevance_cutoff: float, rerank: bool, metadata_filter: Optional[Dict[str, Any]], user_id: Optional[str]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]
```

## Parameters

<ParamField query="query" type="str" required={true}>
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="limit" type="int" required={false} default="5">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="min_quality" type="float" required={false} default="0.0">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="relevance_cutoff" type="float" required={false} default="0.0">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="rerank" type="bool" required={false} default="False">
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="metadata_filter" type="Optional" required={false}>
  No description available.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="user_id" type="Optional[str]" required={false}>
  No description available.
</ParamField>

### Returns

<ResponseField name="Returns" type="List[Dict[str, Any]]">
  The result of the operation.
</ResponseField>

## Uses

* `aggregate`
* `limit`
* `find`
* `embedding`
* `query`
* `search_short_term`
* `conn.cursor`
* `fetchall`
* `c.execute`
* `json.loads`

## Used By

* [`AgentTeam.restore_session_state`](../functions/AgentTeam-restore_session_state)
* [`Memory.search_short_term`](../functions/Memory-search_short_term)
* [`Memory.delete_memories_matching`](../functions/Memory-delete_memories_matching)
* [`Memory.build_context_for_task`](../functions/Memory-build_context_for_task)

## Source

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  `praisonaiagents/memory/memory.py` at line 776
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