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# [Why we built a local-first always-on agent instead of another cloud bot](https://anymodelbot.hashnode.dev/why-we-built-a-local-first-always-on-agent-instead-of-another-cloud-bot?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Hi, I'm Malachi, a co-developer of AnyModelBot. A few days ago I walked through how we store long-term memory as plain Markdown on disk. This post is the design story behind that choice — why the agen

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