Files Are the New API — But Who's Checking the Files?

Everyone is suddenly talking about files. LlamaIndex published " Files Are All You Need ." LangChain wrote about agents using filesystems for context engineering . Oracle — yes, that Oracle — compared filesystems vs databases for agent memory . Karpathy pointed out that Claude Code works because it runs on your machine, with your files, your context. The consensus is clear: file-based persistent context is the future of AI agents. We agree. We've been building on this assumption for months. But after watching this conversation unfold, we think the industry is celebrating the answer while ignoring three critical questions. The Problem Everyone Sees LLM context windows are ephemeral. They're whiteboards that get erased after every session. Files solve this elegantly — write context to disk, read it back later. No API orchestration, no vendor lock-in, no complex infrastructure. CLAUDE.md gives your agent project context. .cursorrules gives it coding preferences. aboutme.md gives it your i