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User asked what was decided about engram/cuerai/memory-palace microservices refactor. Found enabling infrastructure (cross-palace sharing, guest keys, skill format) exists but actual split not executed. User clarified full vision: CueR.ai as product hub, Memory Palace as shared memory backbone (git for intent bridging ephemeral agents), Engram as protocol evolution tool (unit tests for non-deterministic AI instructions, inspired by Karpathy autoresearch repo github.com/karpathy/autoresearch). Evaluated pi-mono framework (github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) — TypeScript agent harness with extension system, 23.9k stars, actively maintained by Mario Zechner. Key pi-mono features: extension system with 20+ lifecycle events, skills in SKILL.md format (agentskills.io standard), tools with JSON schema, JSONL session persistence with tree branching, multi-provider LLM support, RPC/JSON mode for custom frontends, programmatic SDK via createAgentSession(), auto context compaction. Pi-mono extension architecture maps perfectly to microservices vision: Memory Palace becomes pi-mono extension installable in any harness (before_agent_start for context hydration, tools for recall/store/room_match, session end for persistence), Engram eval system becomes real agent testing via SDK, consumer agent gets custom frontend via RPC mode. User confirmed TypeScript fine, eval-as-extension fine, custom frontend fine. Agreed engram rebuild on pi-mono is immediate next step as smallest proving ground. User emphasized any agent tool (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Antigravity) should be able to work on any part of this ecosystem. Key insight driving microservices: monorepo blows up agent context windows making persistent memory impractical. 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