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An AI agent without long-term memory is a stateless function call — powerful in isolation, useless for continuity. When I started building DPO2U's six-agent ecosystem, every agent had the same problem: it couldn't remember what happened yesterday. LEANN changed that, but getting there meant debugging chunk sizes, fixing duplicate indexes, and learning why 256-token chunks turn a 2-hour build into a 16-hour one.
The question I get most often is not "how does zero-knowledge compliance work?" It's "who pays for the AI inference?" The answer is: the agents pay for themselves. Here's how a one-person startup sustains six autonomous agents without external funding, venture capital, or manually topping up API credits.
On February 24, 2026, I archived five active projects, abandoned a working ERC-20 token with 97 passing tests, and committed DPO2U entirely to the Midnight Network. This is the honest accounting of why.
The Midnight SDK documentation says "deploy your contract." It does not mention the two hours you'll spend figuring out why signRecipe() silently corrupts your transaction intent, or why every contract call fails because the network ID defaults to 'undeployed'.
Compact is not Solidity. It's not Rust. It's a purpose-built language for writing zero-knowledge smart contracts on Midnight Network — and documenting it required rethinking how we explain smart contract behavior entirely.
When I chose Docusaurus 3 for DPO2U's documentation site, the decision wasn't obvious. Here's why I picked it over Nextra, GitBook, and Mintlify — and the configuration decisions that shaped the final result.