What I Actually Built With agentmemory Is Not What I Imagined

I set out to build persistent memory for AI coding agents. What I ended up building was a very specific kind of honesty layer — the thing that forces an AI to remember what it got wrong as clearly as what it got right.

This is a post about what agentmemory actually does, what I thought it would do, and why the gap between those two things is the most interesting part.