Should users be able to move their data, memories, and agents between providers?
Whether memories and agents are portable across providers will shape lock-in the way data portability shaped platforms — and agent-infrastructure choices being made now are quietly deciding it.
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Portability became a competitive weapon before it became a right: Anthropic shipped an import tool that carries assistant memories over from rivals — converting memory lock-in from a theoretical concern into an active battleground — and the first protocol work on cryptographically verified memory transfer between heterogeneous agents appeared.
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The first major provider move to make assistant memories portable across competitors — converting memory lock-in from a theoretical concern into an active competitive battleground.
this context remains locked within vendor-specific runtimes.
A technical proposal for provenance-verified memory transfer between heterogeneous agents — early infrastructure work on exactly the portability layer being quietly decided now.