Granola launches Agent Briefs as critics flag Big Labs' MCP lock-in strategy
soleio · x · 2026-11-12
Granola introduced Agent Briefs: every night it distills everything it knows about you—priorities, habits, relationships, communication style—into a context brief that any agent (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) can consume, keeping all agents up to date.
Repurposing the announcement, cjpedregal argues Big Labs let you wire apps into agents via MCP but deliberately don't offer a general MCP themselves (despite inventing it), betting that a fully configured agent is too painful to switch away from. His takeaway: check your agent's brief—they're surprisingly good—and prefer staying un-locked-in.
Related event: Granola's Agent Briefs Packages User Context for External AI Bots(3 posts)→
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