Agent Identity: From Locke to OpenClaw
Agent Identity: From Locke to OpenClaw On the engineering practice and philosophical framework of AI agent identity continuity 0. Introduction: An Engineering Problem Misdiagnosed as Philosophy The cost of agent amnesia is systematically underestimated. Not because users are annoyed—though they are. But because statelessness breaks the foundation of the trust account. Every session, the agent starts from zero. It doesn’t know who you are, why you got angry last time, whether that promise from three months ago was kept....