The Filesystem Is the Database: Why Agents Need a New Storage Primitive

Something interesting is happening in the agentic infrastructure space, and it is not what most people expected. For the past two years, the dominant paradigm for giving agents access to knowledge has been Retrieval-Augmented Generation: embed your documents, store them in a vector database, and let the model query them at inference time. RAG worked. It was good enough. But “good enough” has a…