If you don't own the memory, you don't own the agent: - memory is what makes your agent get smarter over time - without it, anyone with the same tools can copy your agent overnight - with it, you build a dataset no competitor can replicate - closed memory = your data on someone else's servers - switch models, lose everything your agent learned - model providers are incentivized to lock you in via memory - the model is easy to replace, memory is not - if you don't own the harness, you don't own the memory - if you don't own the memory, you don't own the agent full story of why this matters and what happens when memory is locked behind someone else's API 👇