> A memoryfield page looks like this: --- title: Carbon Fibre Woks created: '202... | Hacker News

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kelseyfrog 23 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Agent memory as a file format

> A memoryfield page looks like this:

    ---
    title: Carbon Fibre Woks
    created: '2026-03-01T09:00:00Z'
    updated: '2026-08-22T14:30:00Z'
    uuid: 6aa615f0-486f-48a7-a210-ba4f5ff18c8b
    summary: Thermal properties of carbon fibre cookware
    ---

    Carbon fibre woks conduct heat evenly, but...

So basically recfiles[1], and an entire suite of tools replaced by fopen and sed. Anyone who doesn't know of recfiles is doomed to reimplement it(poorly).

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

calpaterson 23 days ago [–]

Thanks for pointing out recfiles. I was not aware of it and will investigate whether we can reuse anything. That said Markdown with YAML frontmatter is not exactly my own invention!

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