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Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

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Re: Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

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post #9

It is 2026. Average people build their own harnesses, and imagine themselves the pioneers of industry. They propose protocols. They code, feverishly, into the night, driven by their vision for the future. It used to be that 'idea guys' were limited by execution. We now feel the avalanche of these ideas, even maybe executed half-decently, fall upon deaf ears and zero market.

Yes https://github.com/space-bacon/SRT I can read any models every thought. No one cares. Not the narrative.

What does it do?

Re: Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

#26
post #17

* …tools, UMP does for memory - negotiated operations over a portable, signed, bi-temporal record … * What is a bi-temporal record? I don’t think I’ve heard the term before and I’d love to learn more.

IIUC, the most basic version is when you have a log where every entry has both “date added” and “effective date,” so you can add stuff to the log retroactively. For example, “the user just informed us yesterday that they moved last year” -> address date added=yesterday, date effective=last year

I have similar setup in Orgzly (kinda in Emacs too but it's buggy and not not as useful there) where a note has a "created time" property that's always automatically applied. And then there's the "closed time" applied when I set note the state to "done", which I sometimes modify depending on what the note is for and thus what "done" means.

Re: Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

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post #9

It is 2026. Average people build their own harnesses, and imagine themselves the pioneers of industry. They propose protocols. They code, feverishly, into the night, driven by their vision for the future. It used to be that 'idea guys' were limited by execution. We now feel the avalanche of these ideas, even maybe executed half-decently, fall upon deaf ears and zero market.

Yes https://github.com/space-bacon/SRT I can read any models every thought. No one cares. Not the narrative.

Saw this shared a few days ago, skimmed it, didn't understand it. See it again now, another skim, still don't understand. I think it could use a ELI15 or something.

Re: Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

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A lot of shaming and negative comments. Mainly people annoyed that this is created with LLM usage. Comments like, the author is grandiose, he/she is delusional, the repo was committed yesterday etc.

It seems to be a lot of folks in the community are just lethargic to anything created by LLMs.

But regarding the idea itself, the author basically abstracted and use MCP as the server/interface. I worked a bit on the memory issue of agents, and I do understand the pain point. So I just looked at the article as a source of aspiration, another interesting idea etc..before LLMs, the author could have just said in a blog, oh why not have a universal protocol for memory? But now the author can actually do it, try it, share it with others, and for one see this as a progress, it might inspire other people.

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