Topic
agent
4 articles filed under agent, newest first — notes from building Brainstorm, the local-first, AI-native operating system for knowledge work.
August 2026
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An agent is a member, not a feature
Most products bolt an assistant onto the side, a box in the corner with no standing in the thing it is helping you with. Brainstorm makes an agent a member of your vault instead, with a name, permissions from the same list a person holds, and a record of everything it did.
July 2026
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An app can be two files
The whole platform contract is a manifest and an entry page, so you can extend your own workspace with a tool nobody else would ever build, typed by hand in the code editor or described to the agent and approved into your vault.
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What the agent can put in your vault
The assistant now drafts real notes, tasks, events, bookmarks and contacts as cards you edit and approve, which makes it safe to ask it for broad, messy work instead of one careful thing at a time.
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When an email can start a workflow
Mail lands in your vault as a typed object, so an automation can trigger on it, an AI step can read it and branch, and every attachment becomes a file you can search, link and reuse anywhere else.