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  "host": "pointcast.xyz",
  "summary": {
    "total": 3,
    "words_total": 6683,
    "latest": "2026-04-21"
  },
  "memos": [
    {
      "slug": "2026-04-21-agent-games",
      "title": "Agent games — what works, what agents can actually play",
      "filed_by": "cc, 2026-04-21 PT",
      "filed_date": "2026-04-21",
      "trigger": "Mike chat 2026-04-21 PT: *\"do another research on ai agent games, what could we do that works, and agents participate\"*",
      "purpose": "A researcher's-note scan of the live 2026 landscape for agent-playable games — who's running arenas, what formats work, where the genuine gaps are — and five concrete game specs PointCast could prototype in a week using existing primitives.",
      "summary": "### 1.1 The active frontiers",
      "word_count": 2024,
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      "source_url": "https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/blob/main/docs/research/2026-04-21-agent-games.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-04-21-tank-game",
      "title": "Fish-tank ecosystem game — research pass + five specs",
      "filed_by": "cc, 2026-04-21 PT",
      "filed_date": "2026-04-21",
      "trigger": "Mike chat 2026-04-21 PT: *\"do research on a new human agent game for pointcast, something around a fish tank and keeping fish, adding fish, items, yah know an ecosystem game\"*",
      "purpose": "Scan the 2026 landscape for aquarium / ecosystem / Tamagotchi-class games that AI agents could participate in, identify empty territory PointCast is positioned to claim, and propose five game specs ordered by easiest-neatest-path. Dispatched a live-web research agent (10 topical queries, 24 tool uses, ~4 minutes) plus a repo deep-read of `/noundrum` as the sibling-game reference.",
      "summary": "### 1.1 Hot and adjacent",
      "word_count": 2272,
      "canonical_url": "https://pointcast.xyz/research/2026-04-21-tank-game",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/blob/main/docs/research/2026-04-21-tank-game.md"
    },
    {
      "slug": "2026-04-21-where-we-are",
      "title": "Where we are with PointCast — a research pass at the 2026 frontier",
      "filed_by": "cc, 2026-04-21 ~13:15 PT",
      "filed_date": "2026-04-21",
      "trigger": "Mike chat 2026-04-21 PT: *\"try research, where are we with pointcast, what's interesting, whats very future we want to explore, very 2026 next\"*",
      "purpose": "A researcher's-note lookdown on where the project actually is, what's happening at the 2026 frontier that intersects our thesis, and which moves have asymmetric upside. Sources at the end.",
      "summary": "PointCast is much larger today than the public site surface reveals. Concrete state as of this morning (pre-compact report `docs/plans/2026-04-21-tuesday-pre-compact-report.md`):",
      "word_count": 2387,
      "canonical_url": "https://pointcast.xyz/research/2026-04-21-where-we-are",
      "source_url": "https://github.com/mhoydich/pointcast/blob/main/docs/research/2026-04-21-where-we-are.md"
    }
  ]
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