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April 13th, 2026
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The Filesystem Is the Database: Why Agents Need a New Storage Primitive
Agentic AI
Virtual Filesystem
RAG
Agent Infrastructure
Enterprise AI
Context Engineering
AgentFS
MCP
RAG pipelines gave agents memory. But the next wave of agentic infrastructure is converging on a different primitive entirely: the virtual filesystem. From Mintlify's ChromaFs to Turso's AgentFS to Box's enterprise VFS layer, the pattern is unmistakable. The filesystem is becoming the universal interface for agent cognition, and the database is quietly becoming its substrate.
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