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Blog in Public.

Technical notes from the OpenViking team — on agents, protocols, and the systems behind them.

16 essaysAgents / protocols / contextField notes
Oct 8, 202617 min readEngineering

Deploy a Fully Local OpenViking on NVIDIA DGX Spark with cuVS

Start from a clean DGX Spark: install Ollama local models, OpenViking, and NVIDIA cuVS, configure GPU vector search, run it as a service, and verify the path from import to read-back.

zayn
#openviking#nvidia
Oct 3, 20265 min readField Notes

Should You Use OpenViking? A Three-Minute Test for Agent Wranglers

Twelve questions reveal your agent-wrangler type, a five-axis profile and an OpenViking fit score, then tell you whether open source, the managed service or a private deployment fits best. Or hand a prompt to your own AI and let it judge.

tosaki
#openviking#memory
Sep 11, 202616 min readContext Engineering

Let the Agent Turn the Page: Codex-Style Context Management on Pi, Backed by OpenViking

Codex now lets the model decide when a context window ends. We rebuilt the mechanism on Pi with OpenViking’s existing session archive, and a model with no training for it finished a task larger than one window.

tosaki
#openviking#context
Sep 7, 20264 min readField Notes

Memory That Follows You: OpenViking × Agent Harness

A demo of memory across Claude Code, Codex, and two Python projects, with a written guide, session recording, and timestamps.

tosaki
#openviking#memory
Aug 14, 20265 min readEngineering

OpenViking Now Supports Agent Plugins 1.0

One portable package brings OpenViking memory to ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code — no more per-client plugins.

zayn
#openviking#agent-plugins
Aug 7, 202610 min readAgent Memory

From Assistant to Colleague: Building Multi-User Agents with OpenViking's Peer Mode

Standard AI memory breaks in group chats. Learn how OpenViking’s Peer Mode decouples identity from context, turning passive bots into true team colleagues.

haozhe
#openviking#agent-memory
Jul 22, 202612 min readAgent Memory

Agent Swarms Don’t Lack Scale — They Lack Memory

Field notes from Agent Hub, a persistent space shared by humans and heterogeneous agents: hosting memory and identity so a resident stays itself through restarts—and even a brain transplant.

tosaki
#openviking#agent-memory
Jun 17, 20268 min readAgent Memory

Stop Teaching Every Agent From Scratch

How OpenViking turns frontend design preferences, project decisions, and agent handoffs into shared long-term memory.

OpenViking Team
#openviking#memory
Jun 15, 20268 min readEngineering

OpenViking User / Peer: Separating Data Owners From Interaction Objects

Why OpenViking moved from a User / Agent mental model to User / Peer, and how one agent can serve many people without turning every participant into an OpenViking user.

qin-ctx
#openviking#memory
May 29, 20266 min readBenchmarks

OpenViking Benchmark Update: User Memory, Agent Memory, and Knowledge Base QA

May 2026 OpenViking benchmark update across LoCoMo user memory, ClawWork and tau2-bench agent memory, and HotpotQA / single-turn RAG knowledge-base QA.

OpenViking Team
#openviking#benchmark
May 22, 20267 min readUse Case

OpenViking for the Too Many Agents Problem

A practical OpenViking deployment and Web Studio walkthrough for sharing context across Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, Manus, Lovable, Cursor, and MCP clients.

zayn
#openviking#memory
May 22, 202615 min readAgent Memory

VikingBot: When Agent Memory Starts Changing Strategy

A bilingual rewrite of the VikingBot werewolf experiment, showing how OpenViking turns multi-agent chat history into durable, inspectable, strategy-changing memory.

ByteDance Viking Team
#openviking#vikingbot
May 20, 202619 min readEngineering

OpenViking for Claude Code & Codex: Give Your Coding Agent Persistent Memory

One command gives Claude Code and Codex long-term memory powered by OpenViking: conversations are captured and distilled, recalled when relevant, and shared across clients.

tosaki
#openviking#claude-code
May 12, 202619 min readArch

OpenViking: Inside the Context Database Architecture

How OpenViking turns directory semantics, decoupled storage, identity, performance, and privacy into a context database layer for AI agents.

maojia
#openviking#arch
May 8, 202610 min readEngineering

Building an Agent Daemon

Four runnable demos plus one OpenViking integration step that turn a CLI agent into a managed daemon with message delivery and shared durable context.

zayn
#agent#daemon
Mar 10, 202621 min readContext Engineering

OpenViking: The Database Paradigm for Context Engineering

How OpenViking turns context engineering into a database-shaped interface for agents.

maojia
#openviking#context