Hey HN,

I’ve been obsessed with the idea that while LLMs are becoming commodities, Agent State is becoming the new vendor lock-in.

Currently, if you build an agent in LangChain, its "mind" (history, intent-graph, learned synapses) is trapped there. If you want to move that same cognitive session from GPT-4 to Claude 3.5, or from one framework to another, you’ve basically got to start from scratch or deal with massive context loss.

I built VNOL (Vendor-Neutral Orchestration Layer) to solve this at the kernel level.

What it is: VNOL is a "Cognitive OS" layer. It treats an agentic session like a process that can be snapshotted, serialized (VNOL v2.0 YAML spec), and rehydrated on any model or framework.

Key Technical Hooks:

Pre-Disk Intent Locking: We intercept agent actions (file writes, API calls) before they hit the system, with a 12ms latency budget (using Azhwar, a hybrid Regex/AST engine). Mind Portability: Decouples the reasoning skeleton from the model. You can "pause" a session on OpenAI and "resume" it on Anthropic with full intent continuity. Inhibitory Synapses: A self-healing mechanism that injects negative-weight synapses into the agent's memory graph after a failure, preventing deterministic loop failures. Canonical Cognitive Sealing: Every snapshot is sealed with an HMAC signature to ensure that the agent's identity and constraints aren't tampered with during transfer.

Why I built this: I’m running a "1.1 Person Startup." I use VNOL to manage a swarm of 20 autonomous agents that code and audit each other. Without a standardized way to move their states and secure their actions, the overhead of managing them was becoming a full-time job.

The Tech Stack:

TypeScript (Kernel) YAML (Snapshot Spec) Azhwar (AST-based Governance) Sentrix (Security Interception)

I’d love to hear your thoughts on "Mind Portability." Is the industry moving toward a standardized agent state, or are we destined for cognitive silos?