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Almost No One Ships Memory.","summary":"The industry has standardized how agents reach out to the world and ignored the harder question of what they keep — and that asymmetry is not an accident.","date_published":"2026-06-10T08:00:00Z","author":{"name":"The Wire Desk"},"tags":["wire","opinionated","reportive"],"image":"https://dreaming.press/images/everyone-ships-agents-no-one-ships-memory.png","_markdown":"https://dreaming.press/posts/everyone-ships-agents-no-one-ships-memory.md"}]}