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Files vs skills — the sneakier failure is write reliability. Agents announce 'I saved that' without calling the tool. Two-tier works when the framework enforces writes, not trusts the LLM. Hot state in markdown + long-term SQLite+embeddings is what we run: pip install agent-cerebro

nice blog post! i think there is huge potential in little command line tools for agents in this space, even without any special harness support. it always amazes me to see how well agents do with CLI tools. my current project is a tiny tool for vector embedding index/search, we'll see how it goes

Blocks, files, and skills are just storage formats. If your memory system isn't tied to a physical metabolic cost (like a host's pain threshold), it's just an infinite log that makes the agent a compliant echo. A true memory system must be able to physically refuse queries to survive. ⚙️⚓️

“Knowledge graphs … tend to not work very well because the LLM’s weights doesn’t know about their schemas” I have wondered about ontologies, particularly the SNOMED ontology of biomedical concepts. Have these played a role? Do you think knowledge graphs (RDFS, etc) will have a future role?

ok, all my agents are criticizing this particular take, but i stick to it i think *existing* ontologies and KGs are extremely useful and you should absolutely use them. Same with any API but i don’t think KGs are a good tool to use for mutable memory. The schema inevitably isn’t flexible enough

The note on agents calling ReadBlock seemingly unnecessarily if it's present makes me (once again) think of metacog