diff --git a/docs/decisions/0072-agents-with-memory.md b/docs/decisions/0072-agents-with-memory.md
index 79b770a3ed9b..eb8c6a7281ed 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/0072-agents-with-memory.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/0072-agents-with-memory.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Building a service to host an agent comes with challenges.
 It's hard to build a stateful service, but service consumers expect an experience that looks stateful from the outside.
 E.g. on each invocation, the user expects that the service can continue a conversation they are having.
 
-This means that where the the service is exposing a local agent with local conversation state management (e.g. via `ChatHistory`)
+This means that where the service is exposing a local agent with local conversation state management (e.g. via `ChatHistory`)
 that conversation state needs to be loaded and persisted for each invocation of the service.
 
 It also means that any memory components that may have some in-memory state will need to be loaded and persisted too.