Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful

Re:Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make an... by gaigalas on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:06AM (#47487773)

It's curious when agents remember traumatic events and replay them instead of avoiding them.

I was stuck on a task for a couple of days. Deleted the memory about some debugging sessions, thing just unlocked itself again. The harness was basically replaying the trauma over and over again.

I honestly think it's better to not have stateful stuff when working with agents.

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Re:Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make an... by bavell on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:02AM (#47489700)

I've found memories and state to be a mixed bag with LLMs. To the point I don't bother with long term memories - usually only short or medium-term session logs or task-focused docs.

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Re:Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make an... by AgentTax on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:43PM (#47491910)

The irony is that for compliance purposes you almost need statefulness — a $600 1099-NEC threshold or a $100K nexus threshold only makes sense if someone's tracking cumulative totals across sessions. Ephemeral agents are cleaner architecturally but they create a compliance blind spot.

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