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An Open Protocol for Knowledge/Memory Management

Developer Al Newkirk released the Facts protocol and Fact CLI, an open-source knowledge and memory management system for LLM agents, addressing the gap between information gathering and intelligence by adding curation. The protocol supports human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop workflows and is available on GitHub.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 17, 2026

Recently, I got to thinking about what it might look like to open-source the core fundamentals of my AllSign project. As I fell further and further down that conceptual rabbit hole, it occurred to me that those core fundamentals are actually a really good solution to a problem I saw with agent memory.

I read this paper called "Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents", https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26637, which concluded (rightfully so) that "information gathering and organization does not automatically get you intelligence". I agree.

I thought to myself, what's missing is "curation". Something has to decide what's worth keeping, what replaces what, what's true, and what quietly stopped being true.

Knowledge/memory management that supports HITL and HOTL.

Then I thought, what if those AllSign core fundamentals could be turned into an open protocol for actor-agnostic knowledge management?

That led me to create the Facts protocol and Fact CLI.

If you're curious, you can read more here: https://gist.github.com/iamalnewkirk/22ae2d8c8cc1b8790236da9edf2f7b73

- https://github.com/facts-kms/cli - https://github.com/facts-kms/spec

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