Configuring a Genie: agents, skills, and memory
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A coding agent out of the box is generic. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini — they all boot up knowing nothing about you, your repos, your conventions, or yesterday's conversation. On Fibe we call the running instance a Genie, and the platform's whole job is to make that generic Genie yours before a single token is generated.
"Yours" isn't one thing: a provider choice, credentials we have to protect, skill files, files you dragged in, and — the part people underestimate — memory of what happened last time. None of that lives in the container; it lives in an Agent, a small, boring, persistent config record the Genie reads from. This post walks through that record, down to how it reaches the container.