how does an agent keep track of where it is in the folder chain ? my architecture might not be fully linear , I may have process that I would want to invoke somewhere down a chain , get some result , then return to where I was . (like a classic function call with return) does it require setting up some kind of memory for the running agent ?

would love to hear what Jake has to say about that ! its basically the Karpathy llm wiki concept , but generalized to a simple folder setup . main use case is to set up a knowledge base that is both human and AI readable. I can see it could be integrated with ICM with no issue and it involves pointing the agent\skill to specific types and other metadata , that will be present as YAML front-matter in the files, as well as index file in each folder. one caveat to notice is that its completely open format so You have to think about the process of ingesting data into it , and ideally an agent should handle it .. or a single prompt if its not too complicated. its still somewhat of a personal system , I think that if you develop tools that will be used by an organization then migrating to a Standardised database is probably the way to go , if you want to maintain order .. but I'm uncertain about that.

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Recently a lot of excellent community discussion around how to ICM, largely because that’s the foundation but also refocused due to @Bas Rosario’s Post on ICM as building a Cake. Having experienced rapid growth in my past, one of the hardest things to do is keep language and definitions aligned. If I say the Agent did this, where does your brain go? Lines get crossed because you have so many levels of understanding and perspective. Some people are coming from non-technical backgrounds and have learned through corporate ai marketing. Others coming from corporate environments where language is defined for them by the management and designers building their infrastructure. Mini cultures with their own language. One of the brilliant aspects of ICM is it's commonality with almost anyone on a computer. It's just a folder, from that foundation we can all get on board. What's difficult is what happens next. I had this conversation with claude during a planning session. Claude asked me did I want agents or roles? I responded back by did he mean an agent like claude or codex, which is really an LLM, a purpose built agentic piece of software that the market tells me is an agent that does stuff? Or a folder acting as an agent with a specific role. I didn't know what the underlying meaning implied, how to answer? So I asked here was the response. 1. Engine — the LLM brand (Claude, Codex, Kimi, Minimax). Raw cognition, rented capacity, the electrons. Interchangeable. 2. Agent — the ICM folder. Persistent shaped context: identity + rules + reference + memory + boundaries. A standing operator that exists on disk and endures across sessions. This is your "folders hold attention" — an agent is where attention lives. 3. Role — a lens/hat: a function performed at one step of a process. It exists only in the doing. Where attention points right now.

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