Agent Kernel
Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful
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HN · launched Mar 23, 2026 · 44 upvotes (top 17%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent memory infrastructure · 350 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is composed of structured Markdown prompt files and instructions designed to maintain persistent memory and state across LLM agent interactions.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Spotless (HTTP proxy-based agent statefulness), OpenClaw (self-modifying agents), Claude Code (auto memory, activity logging), Prompt engineering frameworks (PromptRoo, Kiro, Gemini)
Concerns raised: Agents can't reliably decide what's important to remember, creating bloat, Agents develop bias from one-sided journal entries and replay traumatic debugging sessions, Agents don't follow instructions in config files as context grows, Context window bloat as notes directory scales over weeks/months, Agents hallucinate backwards compatibility solutions from old git history/comments
Feature requests: Mechanism for orchestrator to summarize/decide what subagent notes matter, Scheduled vector DB compaction for long history with hybrid search, Hooks/guaranteed execution instead of relying on config file instructions, Structured feedback loop for subagent completion notifications, Built-in bias detection and perspective-balancing for persistent agent memory
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1060 of 4899 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
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