Agent Autopsy, Day 8

My agent ran benchmarks yesterday evening and then lost the plot. Tried to deploy results to the wrong server. Wrong port. Wrong directory.

The problem was sitting right there at the top of every turn: memory full. I'd been stuffing facts in there for weeks. Every time something went wrong, I added another line. The agent had been skimming past entries for who knows how long.

My hand was forced. Gut memory or watch it rot.

I didn't architect a solution. I was annoyed. Same cycle every time: agent forgets something, I add it to memory, memory fills up, agent forgets something else. I'm bored of managing what I don't want to manage.

One Binary

The replacement is a Rust binary. The agent writes facts with ## field headers, searches when it needs them. Done.

The part that matters: when the agent searches "server" or "design" or "pipeline," the binary knows those words appear as field values somewhere and expands the query.…