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Agents need memory that lasts across sessions, and a single MEMORY.md file isn't enough. Agent Memory Repo is an open spec that treats agent memory as a git repo. Git gives memory a history, a way to merge, and permissions. Agents already know how to use it. The spec is also published at cognition.ai/agent-memory-repo. Every session follows the same steps. Dreaming is a dedicated agent that runs periodically. It has two jobs. Personal memory. Remember a user's context across sessions, like who they work with or how their projects connect. Each session reads and updates the same memory repo. Agent swarms. Share findings across agents working in parallel. Git merges their changes and surfaces conflicts. Team memory. Share knowledge about customers, processes, and tools, especially for teams without a code repo. A lesson from one member's support investigation becomes available to everyone's agents. Multiplayer. Memories compose because they are folders.…

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  1. Agent Memory Repo
  2. The memory loop
  3. Dreaming
  4. Use cases
  5. Repository layout
  6. MEMORY.md
  7. Entries and metadata
  8. Cross-links
  9. Composability
  10. Worked example: learning a SQL query from code
  11. Try with your agent
  12. Open development

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