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# [Don't Index Your System of Record](https://danmercede.hashnode.dev/don-t-index-your-system-of-record?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Thought Snippet · 2026-07-03 · 08:40 AM PT Went to drop a PDF into an agent's knowledge vault today and hit the right instinct by accident: the vault's ingest crawler explicitly excludes its own direc

Jul 3 · 1 min read · danmercede.hashnode.dev  
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Building agentic and runtime systems. Writing about routing, rails, and the decision gates that keep autonomous systems from being confident

Founder & Systems Architect. Building governed AI operating systems focused on decision authority, memory, and auditability.

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