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Research30 Sep 2026 · Paper

Knowledge Accumulates, State Supersedes: Structuring and Carrying Context for Multi-Session, Multi-Harness AI Agent Work — A Design Study of The Curator, an Open-Source Context Engine

Large language model (LLM) agents now carry out work that outlasts a single session: building software, running literature reviews, writing books, producing campaigns. Every session, however, begins with an empty context window, and when the work moves to a different agent harness, a different model or a different computer, whatever the previous session knew is lost.

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From Lab to Life20 Sep 2026 · Essay

The Context Engine

Three kinds of context, three write rules, and a project that outlives the session, the harness, the model and the machine

The CuratorMedium (canonical) · Substack
From Lab to Life3 Sep 2026 · Essay

Where Your Context Lives

The Curator ships as a native Mac app (v3.45.0). Covers the three layers (personal wiki, Shared Brain, agent working state), the menu-bar widget, bring-your-own-key across three providers at about €5 a month, and plain-markdown portability.

The CuratorMedium (canonical) · Substack
From Lab to Life30 Aug 2026 · Essay

The Handoff Writes Itself

The confession piece about two years of hand-written handoff files. The flaw: the most degraded model writes the most important document.

The CuratorMedium (canonical) · Substack

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