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On real-time collaboration, local-first markdown, open source, and giving your AI a second brain.
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How to write an AGENTS.md file, and what to leave out of it
AGENTS.md has no schema, so the question is what belongs in it. The inclusion test, the 32 KiB budget, nesting across loaders, and where the rest goes.
Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min readHow to share an Obsidian vault with others, free and paid
Obsidian Sync, Publish, Dropbox, Git and Relay, honestly costed. What the other person can actually do, and how to share one folder instead of the lot.
Oct 8, 2026 · 8 min readCursor can now reach the agent on your laptop. Your teammates still cannot
Cursor's Remote Control reaches a local agent from your phone. What the agent writes is still on one machine that has to stay awake. Here is the other half.
Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min readObsidian per-file permissions need a server that can say no
Obsidian has no per-file permissions, and a plugin that hides notes is not one. Every working answer adds a server. What each costs, and what AI changes.
Oct 8, 2026 · 6 min readMistral Large 4 scored 59.9% on business workflows someone else had already written down
Mistral Large 4 scores 59.9% on 657 business workflows an eval specified for it. Your team's workflows are not specified anywhere, and that is the gap.
Oct 7, 2026 · 6 min readGoogle open-sourced the embedder. Your notes app kept the index
EmbeddingGemma 2 is Apache-2.0 and runs on a laptop. It only helps your team if the notes are files you hold and the search index is a cache you can rebuild.
Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min readAgent memory fails by throwing things away, not by searching badly
A streaming-recall benchmark found every failure in a bounded memory was an eviction, not a bad rank. Retrieval cannot reach what was already dropped.
Oct 7, 2026 · 8 min readThe team's vault is the one MCP server that should not run on a laptop
MCP's own docs now say a local stdio server inherits your whole account, and that folder allowlists enforce nothing. What that means for a team vault.
Oct 7, 2026 · 8 min readYour notes outlive the model that reads them
Anthropic retired Sonnet 4.5 and OpenAI set shutdown dates in one week. Model churn is scheduled. Your team's knowledge should not be on that clock.
Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min readNobody keeps a list of what is subscribed to your team's notes
OpenAI shipped MCP Events at DevDay. A subscription is a standing grant, and the draft defines no way to list one. Your notes server has to keep that list.
Oct 6, 2026 · 6 min readOpen weights, rented notes: what Beam's Apache-2.0 licence does not cover
Reflection AI will ship Beam's weights under Apache-2.0. That licence covers the model, not the knowledge it reads. The corpus is the half nobody self-hosts.
Oct 6, 2026 · 8 min readWhen your team's knowledge is a person, an AI has nothing to cite
Stack Overflow's 2026 survey: 93% need source attribution to trust AI, and 72% get work answers from a coworker. A colleague is not a citable source.
Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min readStart your team’s brain
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