Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment — LoreKit blog

Agent memory remains fragmented across at least four incompatible formats—AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files, Cursor's .mdc rules, Anthropic's memory tool, GitHub Copilot's repo facts, and JSONL knowledge graphs in memory MCP servers—none of which can read each other, according to an analysis by open-source tool LoreKit. The blog argues the problem is not a missing tool but a missing shared agreement, drawing a parallel to observability before 2019, when competing vendor formats merged into OpenTelemetry around a common data model, semantic conventions, OTLP protocol, and shared SDKs. LoreKit, which concedes its own format is one proposal among several with gaps, says the community should agree on a shared shape for how agents store notes for future selves. What to watch next is whether memory-layer builders converge on common conventions the way observability vendors did, or keep shipping new formats nothing else can read.