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Infra2026-06-07 · source-backed
Volcengine's OpenViking (25,259 stars) unifies memory, resources, and skills behind a filesystem paradigm, enabling hierarchical context delivery and self-evolution for agents. Source: GitHub It's climbed sharply this year and it's a major-vendor bet on "context as infrastructure," competing head-on with the agent-memory startups but with big-company backing. The filesystem metaphor keeps winning, OpenViking, OpenAI's filesystem tools in the new Agents SDK, Claude Code's skills directory. Agents reason about files better than they reason about abstractions.
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