Reading up on AT Protocol

Filesystems are emerging as a key context layer for AI agents, offering portable, owned data and interoperability without coordination, though context files risk reducing agent task success if overburdened.

Hacker News commenters debate the AT Protocol's social filesystem metaphor, praising its elegance but criticizing overengineering and centralization risks.

The article argues that social media data should be stored as open files in a distributed filesystem, using the AT Protocol's records, lexicons, and DIDs to decouple data from apps.

The piece argues that domains should serve as universal internet handles, and AT Protocol-based apps like Bluesky already enable this.