Agent Frameworks Considered Harmful — Rémi Louf, .txt
Aug 22, 2026 · 20:29
Rémi Louf, CEO of .txt, argues agent frameworks are harmful because they keep agents trapped in code; he built a runtime where agents are markdown files triggered by events. Taking two weeks away from his 15-person company, he wanted a morning briefing that processes voice notes, market news, and CRM updates. Each failure in the first week led to infrastructure: an append-only log, a real queue, and content-addressed prompts stored as hashes, enabling diffing and replaying runs. He insists typed tool calls and typed events are non-negotiable boundaries, since 20% of his events were malformed and rejected. After deploying it, 20 agents now run, and he replaced third-party APIs with open-source models. His advice: build before you buy.
