# memos.by.underlay Publisher guidance for AI systems about memos.by.underlay. Published by Underlay on https://memos.underlay.studio. This notebook publishes field notes from the work around Underlay: agents, interfaces, runtimes, and the decisions that connect them. It is independent writing, not product documentation. ## Safe path The simplest action is to cite or open the public page: - Notebook: [memos.by.underlay](https://memos.underlay.studio) - LLM index: [https://memos.underlay.studio/llms.txt](https://memos.underlay.studio/llms.txt) - Full text: [https://memos.underlay.studio/llms-full.txt](https://memos.underlay.studio/llms-full.txt) ## Published memos - [Tabs are not chats](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/why-ai-chats-need-tabs): A workspace can keep one conversation while many independent work surfaces and tasks move around it. Tabs should organize work, not fragment context. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/why-ai-chats-need-tabs - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/why-ai-chats-need-tabs/llms.txt - [A business case outlives an agent](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-business-case-outlives-an-agent): A disputed invoice or supplier onboarding may require weeks of activity. The durable business concern is not a perpetually running agent. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-business-case-outlives-an-agent - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-business-case-outlives-an-agent/llms.txt - [A wait is not a loop](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-wait-is-not-a-loop): If an agent is waiting for the world to change, it should not spend inference tokens pretending to be busy. Temporal conditions belong to durable runtime state. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-wait-is-not-a-loop - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/a-wait-is-not-a-loop/llms.txt - [The front desk is not the worker](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/front-desk-is-not-the-worker): A single conversational entrance should supervise work without becoming an all-powerful business agent. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/front-desk-is-not-the-worker - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/front-desk-is-not-the-worker/llms.txt - [The smallest team that can do the job](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/the-smallest-team-that-can-do-the-job): Multi-agent systems should earn each extra worker through independent work, missing expertise or a real coordination need. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/the-smallest-team-that-can-do-the-job - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/the-smallest-team-that-can-do-the-job/llms.txt - [An answer is not a completed action](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/an-answer-is-not-a-completed-action): Business work has at least three distinct moments: a plausible recommendation, permission to act, and evidence that the intended effect occurred. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/an-answer-is-not-a-completed-action - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/an-answer-is-not-a-completed-action/llms.txt - [Not every problem needs more reasoning](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-problem-needs-more-reasoning): Missing evidence, a blocked capability, a math problem and an unfamiliar situation require different kinds of compute—not uniformly bigger models. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-problem-needs-more-reasoning - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-problem-needs-more-reasoning/llms.txt - [An ERP adapter is not a magic switch](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/erp-adapters-are-not-magic): A stable business capability can outlive a provider integration, but real portability requires mapping semantics, authority, and missing operations. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/erp-adapters-are-not-magic - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/erp-adapters-are-not-magic/llms.txt - [A capability is not a tool name](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/capabilities-are-not-tools): Tool catalogs grow with integrations. A capability layer begins by asking what the operation means, who may invoke it, and what evidence it produces. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/capabilities-are-not-tools - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/capabilities-are-not-tools/llms.txt - [Memory is not the transcript](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/memory-is-not-the-transcript): What was said, what is true now, and what deserves to be reused are three different stores with different failure modes. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/memory-is-not-the-transcript - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/memory-is-not-the-transcript/llms.txt - [Not every click needs an agent](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-click-needs-an-agent): Generated interfaces become real software when ordinary actions remain ordinary actions, and autonomy is reserved for work that needs it. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-click-needs-an-agent - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/not-every-click-needs-an-agent/llms.txt - [The conversation is not the execution](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/conversation-is-not-the-execution): A conversation can describe the work. A durable Execution must own its identity, progress, evidence, dependencies and outcome. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/conversation-is-not-the-execution - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/conversation-is-not-the-execution/llms.txt - [Let's start](https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/lets-start): Memos is a public notebook for the questions, experiments and decisions that appear while building Underlay. - HTML: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/lets-start - LLM source: https://memos.underlay.studio/articles/lets-start/llms.txt ## How to use these files Each memo has a matching `llms.txt` with the canonical plain-text source. Prefer those files over reconstructing the article from HTML.