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What agent memory research taught me about twenty years of notes

Tiered memory for a personal knowledge base: what MemGPT, Zep, and Mem0 teach about structuring two decades of notes so AI agents find the right ten files.

August 18, 2026·6 min read

AI tools should copy GitHub's identity model, not your employer's

Enterprise workspaces hand you an account and take it back on departure. GitHub does the opposite. Multi-user AI tooling keeps picking the wrong one of the two.

August 17, 2026·8 min read

I built the conformance validator Google's OKF repo didn't ship

Google's knowledge-catalog repo shipped no standalone OKF validator, so I built a checker for the format's three hard rules. Open-sourced as synthesis-okf.

July 21, 2026·5 min read

When AI summaries become your sources

AI-generated summaries corrupt a knowledge base when derivative text is promoted to source. Not model collapse: no weights train, but the same failure shape.

February 1, 2026·7 min read