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AUG 16, 2026

The Nine Layers of Agent Memory

Talking about "the agent memory layer" in the singular is handwaving. Agent memory is a stack of nine distinct concerns across three planes, where the formal Semantic Web past and the pragmatic markdown reboot collide. Here is the full stack, where OKF fits, and which past ideas are worth bringing back.

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AUG 15, 2026

The Open Knowledge Format Ecosystem: A Field Guide

A survey of the tools growing up around the Open Knowledge Format: desktop apps, agent tooling, importers, and libraries, and where the gaps still are. OKF gives portable shape to the markdown "agent exhaust" agents leave behind. Includes where binder provides the missing corpus on-ramp, and how Agent Skills and Plugins integrate OKF with AI workflows.

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AUG 15, 2026

Taming Cloud Sprawl and AI Spend: Hands-On with GCP Management Agent Skills

Over years of rapid prototyping, Google Cloud portfolios accumulate zombie disks, dormant codelabs, and unexpected GenAI token spend. Here is how to package read-only portfolio auditing, BigQuery billing velocity analysis, quota governance, and safe decommissioning into an open Agent Plugin for agy and OpenCode.

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