Agent Memory Should Be a File Format, Not a RAG Pipeline
Cal Paterson argues agent memory should be data, not a pipeline: portable Markdown pages with optional YAML frontmatter and a SQLite vector index, packed as a .memoryfield file. He skewers lab-tied harnesses, pgvector-plus-Neo4j systems, and "high modernist" fact graphs for treating memory as a process. Plain files stay legible to humans, agents, and future models alike. A proposal, not a shipped tool, but the critique lands.