Raw Markdown Folders Kill Your Agent's Context Window: Lessons From 100k Installs
Alone-Biscotti6145 · reddit · 2026-09-16
After two years and nearly 100k installs of marm-memory, the author explains why pointing an MCP memory system at a raw Markdown directory bloats tokens, adds latency, and induces hallucinations — and the fixes that worked: SQLite WAL connection pooling, a specialized Code Graph to isolate symbols, and strict memory verification guardrails. Open source at github.com/Lyellr88/marm-memory.
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