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Memories are a feature that makes Claude feel magical, but in practice they’re a footgun. Because of that, I’ve come to see memories as an anti-pattern, and when Claude reaches for one, my first question is always: “Why?” To be fair, they solve a very real limitation with agents. Repeated bits of information from past conversations get stored to a Markdown file in your home…
Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a software engineer writing about development in the age of AI agents — tools, patterns, and what it actually looks like to build with them day to day. Find me on GitHub .
After a month of making agent-first CLIs at work, I have settled on a few patterns that help coding agents over several tools my Claude uses every day. I was inspired by an interview with OpenClaw’s creator Pete Steinberger . He talks about using CLI over MCP for agent tools, so I started to make my own gmail CLI as an exercise. I told Claude I wanted to make an agent-first CLI like…