How agents use Jackdaw
The two ways agents and Jackdaw work together.
"Agent" can mean two things with Jackdaw. Both rest on the same idea — Jackdaw is the memory layer — but you set them up differently.
Agents you build in Jackdaw
Jackdaw has its own Agents surface: you describe what you want in a sentence, Jackdaw turns it into an agent, and it runs on a schedule or trigger — observing your data and reporting back. These agents are read-only over your data: they watch and summarize, they don't act as you. See Agents in Jackdaw.
External agents that use Jackdaw
The AI tools you already use — Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor, or an agent you build yourself — can read and write your Jackdaw context over MCP. Jackdaw becomes their long-term memory, so they start every run grounded in your real state. See Bring your own agent.
Whichever path you take, the memory lives in Jackdaw — not in the tool — so it persists across sessions and across tools.