Abject: the first self-aware object runtime
Details
- External ID
- 47613668
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Abject: the first self-aware object runtime
- Website domain
- mempko.com
- Launched
- April 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5919023136246787
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I've felt Agents are the wrong abstraction. This is a project I've been working on that takes what I call the Ask Protocol and tries to build a system with it from the ground up.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-aware object runtime
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Implementing a novel conceptual runtime and custom agent-to-object protocol requires designing non-standard language execution semantics and distributed actor message systems.
What it would actually take: Building an autonomous object runtime requires implementing a custom execution engine (e.g., using WebAssembly, Node VM, or a custom actor model) where state, behaviors, and dynamic LLM invocations are unified under an RPC/Ask protocol. The hard parts are defining safe memory boundaries, cycle detection in dynamic object-to-object prompts, and deterministic state persistence. It demands expertise in programming language runtime design, distributed actor systems, and resilient IPC patterns.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: System is alpha/needs stability assurance, Unclear terminology and product naming
Feature requests: Better getting started instructions, Clearer documentation of commands (conjure/awaken/scry/whisper), Explain how to input goals
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 79 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 80 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 126 days after the earliest competitor.
- Agent Action Protocol (AAP) · hn · 2026-03-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Running AI agents across environments needs a proper solution · hn · 2026-03-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Ably AI Transport · hn · 2026-01-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Agento Runtime · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Durable Actor Session Protocol · hn · 2026-09-28 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- OpenSOP, We got tired of agents lying to us, so we built them a harness · hn · 2026-06-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published · hn · 2026-03-15 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- agentic-observability-demo · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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