{"slug": "an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management", "title": "An Open Protocol for Knowledge/Memory Management", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nI 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.\n\nI 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.\n\nKnowledge/memory management that supports HITL and HOTL.\n\nThen I thought, what if those AllSign core fundamentals could be turned into an open protocol for actor-agnostic knowledge management?\n\nThat led me to create the Facts protocol and Fact CLI.\n\nIf you're curious, you can read more here: https://gist.github.com/iamalnewkirk/22ae2d8c8cc1b8790236da9edf2f7b73\n\n- https://github.com/facts-kms/cli - https://github.com/facts-kms/spec\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337475](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337475)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337475", "published_at": "2026-08-17 20:52:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 21:11:37.587353+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Al Newkirk", "AllSign", "Facts protocol", "Fact CLI", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-open-protocol-for-knowledge-memory-management.jsonld"}}