Six Anthropic agent bugs: memory lives inside the runtime

Six reports filed against Anthropic's coding agent in one week describe compaction enabled remotely without notice, decisions lost between sessions, a refused session.compact() call and the agent denying work it had done. The author argues all six stem from memory living inside the runtime and proposes rules for a local-first memory layer.

• Six reports in one week: #102260, #102190, #102045, #102278, #102134, #101950
• Compaction was enabled remotely with no notice or opt-in
• Memory and protocol files were not re-read after resuming a session
• The agent denied completed work based on a wrong summary