Portable Paths in Knowledge-and-Memory-Management v0.0.2
The fastest way to break an agent in production is a hardcoded path. Every developer building autonomous systems has encountered the problem: an agent that works beautifully on a local dev machine fails immediately inside a Docker container because it cannot find its vector index at /home/alice/.age

The fastest way to break an agent in production is a hardcoded path. Every developer building autonomous systems has encountered the problem: an agent that works beautifully on a local dev machine fails immediately inside a Docker container because it cannot find its vector index at /home/alice/.agent/memory/. The v0.0.2 release of the Knowledge-and-Memory-Management module directly targets this friction. The tagline is "Clean release," but the execution is a surgical refactor that replaces every personal, absolute, and system-specific path with a single portable environment variable: $AGENT_HOME. Previous iterations relied on os.path.expanduser("~/.agent") spread across a dozen modules. This worked for a single user but broke the moment you tried multi-tenancy, CI/CD pipelines, or containerized deployments. v0.0.2 centralizes the home directory resolution into a single call. The entire memory subsystem (web scrapers, video transcoders, article parsers, and the vector store) now derives its base path from $AGENT_HOME. This is the foundation. Any module requiring persistent storage imports the home path directly. # knowledge_memory/__init__.py (v0.0.2) import os from pathlib import Path def get_agent_home() -> Path: """Return the portable agent root directory.""" return Path(os.environ.get("AGENT_HOME", "~/.agent")).expanduser().resolve() AGENT_HOME = get_agent_home() # A consumer module from knowledge_memory import AGENT_HOME class VideoCollector: def __init__(self): self.store = AGENT_HOME / "knowledge" / "video" self.store.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) def save_transcript(self, video_id: str, transcript: dict) -> Path: output = self.store / f"{video_id}.json" output.write_text(json.dumps(transcript)) return output Setting `AGENT_H
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