Bring your own Agent?

I've been thinking this week about Andrej Karpathy's LLM-Wiki concept

and also Pinecone's new Nexus knowledge engine for agents which is trying to tackle the same challenge as Karpathy, but from a different angle

It got me thinking about what a commoditised, personal version of an agentic knowledge engine would look like, where individuals/employees having their own, portable agents, that capture, mine, and curate a representation of the employee's skills, knowledge, experience, toolset, style and memory. This wouldn't look like an employee asking random shite of copilot/etc, or even making use of their current organisation's LLM of choice, it would more portable and durable than that.

We've seen people experimenting with stuff like this with OpenClaw, people riffing on Karpathy's idea, and of course the concept of a 'Second Brain' or Digital Twins are far from new. I've seen a whole bunch of videos on youtube with people building their personal agentic knowledge base (there must be a better term, i just can't think of it), but these have been mainly focused on individual creators/entrepreneurs using a combo llm-wiki type tools, or combining things like Notion and Notion Custom Agents + Claude, However, I'm not aware of this approach yet being mainstreamed as a commoditised approach for employees within an enterprise (correct me if i'm wrong), yet it feels like all of the building blocks are there.

What would this look like? An employee starts at a new company and brings their personal agentic knowledge base with them, that contains a representation of all of the experience, skills and knowledge that they have accrete in their previous jobs. As they go about their new role they consult their agent to help them with new tasks, and feed the agent with a discrete subset of new knowledge, skills and experience that they acquire in their new role.

When we hire people and look for experience what are we really looking for? isn't a significant part of it the retention of knowledge, the ability to make connections and pattern match to new situations, tasks and work based on context and previous events? why wouldn't we want to hire a person that brings all that themselves, but also augments it with their own agent?

What could this mean in the near future?

Could we move to a situation where, when we hire a new person, we aren't just hiring that person because of the knowledge, skills and experience that they have accreted over time and retained within their brain, we are also hiring a new person based on the knowledge, skills and experience that they have curated and codified within their own personal agent?

What would a hiring process look like then? would we be interviewing a candidate and their agent in separate interviews?

What would a performance review look like? 'Look Dave, you had a good year, but you seriously need to take some tips from your agent, he's set for promotion ahead of you'.

What would leaving an organisation look like? would the departure of an employee require a contract-mandated audit of employee's agent log.md?

What would mentoring look like in the future? a parallel exchange of knowledge that is both human to human and agent to agent?

Maybe the future is magic, we are all witches and we all have Agentic Familiars?