Context Camp: Knowledge Management for Personal Agents

I had a fantastic time joining and Doug Turnbull for Context Camp to talk about Knowledge Management for Personal Agents. An agent’s memory is only useful if it can retrieve the right thing at the right time. In the session, I shared what I’ve learnt from running my own personal agent setup on top of an Obsidian and Markdown knowledge base, arguing why RAG is far from dead and why robust indexing is the cornerstone of effective agentic search.👉 Watch the full Context Camp recording on MavenThere is a common misconception that ever-expanding model context windows eliminate the need for retrieval. In practice, dumping an entire knowledge base into a prompt produces bloated token bills, slower responses, and subtle hallucinations. What works is disciplined context management: keeping your knowledge in a durable, app-agnostic store and giving your agents a versatile toolbox of retrieval methods.One Vault, Several Agent RuntimesThe bedrock of my setup is a single, local Markdown vault.…