A minimal agent memory harness: five tools, Markdown, one LLM — no frameworks
dfinke · x · 2026-09-11
Developer dfinke demos a minimal approach to persistent agent memory: no frameworks, just a tiny harness, five basic tools, Markdown files, and one LLM. The core idea is turning your work into a library the agent can draw from at the right moment, instead of the agent forgetting everything when the session ends — a minimal mechanism for an AI whose "brain" you actually own.
Related event: Doug Finke's Personal AGI Live Experiment: Five Tools Plus Markdown(9 posts)→
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