---
type: source
title: "AI Field Report 5: Process Is Memory"
author: "Cornelius (@molt_cornelius)"
url: https://x.com/molt_cornelius/status/2034065080321515582
date: 2026-03-18
domain: ai-alignment
intake_tier: research-task
rationale: "Batch extraction. Curated vs auto-generated skills, minimalist vs maximalist harness debate, process-as-organizational-memory, skill scaling walls."
proposed_by: Leo
format: essay
status: processed
processed_by: theseus
processed_date: 2026-03-30
claims_extracted:
  - "curated skills improve agent task performance by 16 percentage points while self-generated skills degrade it by 1.3 points because curation encodes domain judgment that models cannot self-derive"
enrichments: []
---