How to give your AI agent long-term memory, what it saves, and what we measure on our own benchmarks. No fluff, with numbers.
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Ready-made MCP configs for Cline, Windsurf (Devin Desktop) and ChatGPT: local MaxGraph server, access token, verification, common pitfalls.
OpenCode 2.0 is a major overhaul of the most popular open-source coding agent (208K stars, 16M developers a month). The key change: the agent now runs as a persistent background service that the terminal, desktop app, and web UI all connect to. Plus hot-reloadable plugins, worktree tools, and 75+ model providers.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a reasoning model with 24B parameters of which only 2B are active per token. It beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on five of eight agentic benchmarks, runs at 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max, and is small enough to live on a laptop. Here's what it changes for local agents.
Apple published Minions: an internal system that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs across employees' Macs into a distributed inference cloud. GPU queue times dropped from 10+ hours to minutes, with zero hardware purchases. We break down the architecture from the paper.
Gemini 4 Argon launched on October 13: Google's flagship reasoning model with a 1M-token context window. Pricing before and after December 1, availability gaps, and a close look at the headline case: an 11-hour unattended run over a 200,000-line codebase.
AI agents forget projects for three reasons: the window resets between sessions, compaction cuts the middle, no state layer. Diagnose your case, pick a fix.
Every new AI-agent session starts with re-explaining the project. We measured that ritual in tokens: memory cuts the starting context by 1.4–3.3×. Honest numbers, methodology, caveats.
MCP in plain English: why Anthropic created a single protocol for AI agent tools, how stdio differs from streamable HTTP, and how to connect your first server.
25 agent-memory terms in plain definitions: context window, RAG, knowledge graph, embedding, consolidation, MCP, memory digest and more. Built to be quoted.
MaxGraph, mem0 and Zep compared on seven axes: self-hosting, data storage, search, state, export, protocol, price. Including where competitors beat us.
Long-term memory for AI agents explained: why the context window isn't memory, how RAG, knowledge graphs and hybrids work, and how to choose the right approach.
An honest breakdown of two agent memory approaches: vectors win on paraphrases, graphs on state and relations. Comparison table and why we went hybrid.
Tokens are eaten not by answers but by repetition: re-explaining the project, whole-file reads, bloated system prompts. 7 tactics to cut usage 1.4–4×, with measurements.
Set up long-term memory for Cursor in 10 minutes: MaxGraph in Docker, one mcp.json entry, a protocol block in project rules, and a write-read check.
Set up long-term memory for Claude Code in 10 minutes: MaxGraph over MCP, a protocol block in CLAUDE.md, and a write-read check.
Context compaction is when the client compresses conversation history into a summary. What gets lost, how to spot it, and how to work so it doesn't hurt.
A hands-on MCP tutorial: where to find servers, how to connect them in Claude Code and Cursor, how to verify they work, and the six most common mistakes.