Your applications need more than just individual memory—they need shared
organizational knowledge. While agents maintain their own operational state and
memory across interactions, knowledge graphs provide something fundamentally
different: shared institutional knowledge that captures relationships between
entities, events, and data across your entire app.At Hypermode, we recognize that knowledge graphs aren’t just storage—they’re
becoming critical infrastructure for next-generation AI systems. That’s why
we’ve invested deeply in Dgraph, bringing enterprise-grade graph capabilities to
Modus applications.This is where knowledge graphs transform your Modus deployment from isolated
processes into a coordinated system with shared institutional memory.
Agent state: personal memory that each agent maintains across interactions
Knowledge graphs: shared organizational knowledge that captures
relationships between entities, events, and data across your entire app
Functions: rapid operations for data processing and analysis
AI models: advanced pattern recognition and decision-making capabilities
Think of it as the difference between what an individual process remembers
versus what your organization knows. Agent state is personal memory—what
happened to this specific agent, what conversations they’ve had, what tasks
they’re tracking. Knowledge graphs are organizational intelligence—how entities
relate to each other, which patterns connect to which outcomes, what
relationships emerge across all operations.
Let’s walk through a realistic scenario that demonstrates how all these
components work together. You’re building a system to track anomalous Agent
behavior in the simulated reality. The system needs to:
Rapidly import new Agent sightings and behavioral data
Step 3: Automated processing with asynchronous coordination
Now let’s enhance our system to automatically coordinate surveillance when new
data arrives. We’ll deploy persistent surveillance agents and upgrade our import
function to trigger them:
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type SurveillanceAgent struct { agents.AgentBase MonitoredSectors []string `json:"monitored_sectors"` SightingsTracked int `json:"sightings_tracked"` RecentActivities []string `json:"recent_activities"` LastSweepTime time.Time `json:"last_sweep_time"`}func (s *SurveillanceAgent) Name() string { return "SurveillanceAgent"}func (s *SurveillanceAgent) OnInitialize() error { s.MonitoredSectors = []string{ "Downtown Loop", "Megacity Financial", "Industrial District"} s.SightingsTracked = 0 s.RecentActivities = []string{} s.LastSweepTime = time.Now() return nil}func (s *SurveillanceAgent) OnReceiveMessage( msgName string, data string) (*string, error) { switch msgName { case "continuous_surveillance": return s.processNewIntelligence() case "get_status": return s.getOperationalStatus() } return nil, fmt.Errorf("unrecognized directive: %s", msgName)}func (s *SurveillanceAgent) processNewIntelligence() (*string, error) { // Query knowledge graph for latest data since last sweep query := dgraph.NewQuery(` query getRecentSightings($since: string) { sightings(func: ge(timestamp, $since)) { agent_name threat_level location } } `).WithVariable("$since", s.LastSweepTime.Format(time.RFC3339)) _, err := dgraph.ExecuteQuery("dgraph", query) if err != nil { return nil, err } // Update agent's surveillance state s.LastSweepTime = time.Now() s.SightingsTracked += 1 activity := fmt.Sprintf("Auto surveillance at %s", s.LastSweepTime.Format("15:04:05")) s.RecentActivities = append(s.RecentActivities, activity) // Keep only last 3 activities if len(s.RecentActivities) > 3 { s.RecentActivities = s.RecentActivities[1:] } result := fmt.Sprintf(`Data processed automatically. Tracking %d sightings. Matrix integrity: COMPROMISED`, s.SightingsTracked) return &result, nil}func (s *SurveillanceAgent) getOperationalStatus() (*string, error) { status := fmt.Sprintf(`Surveillance Agent Status:- Operational: Active- Monitoring %d sectors: %s- Last sweep: %s- Tracking %d ongoing sightings- Recent activities: %s`, len(s.MonitoredSectors), strings.Join(s.MonitoredSectors, ", "), s.LastSweepTime.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05"), s.SightingsTracked, strings.Join(s.RecentActivities, ", ")) return &status, nil}func init() { agents.Register(&SurveillanceAgent{}) }func DeploySurveillanceAgent() (string, error) { agentInfo, err := agents.Start("SurveillanceAgent") if err != nil { return "", err } return agentInfo.Id, nil}func GetSurveillanceStatus(agentId string) (string, error) { result, err := agents.SendMessage(agentId, "get_status") if err != nil { return "", err } if result == nil { return "", fmt.Errorf("no response from agent") } return *result, nil}
Now let’s enhance our original import function to automatically trigger
surveillance:
You’ve just built a complete automated surveillance network that demonstrates
the power of coordinated systems. By combining functions for rapid data
processing, knowledge graphs for organizational memory, AI models for enhanced
analysis, and agents for persistent processing—all coordinated through
asynchronous messaging—you’ve created something far more powerful than any
single component could achieve.Your system now automatically processes Agent sightings, triggers surveillance
operations, builds organizational knowledge over time, and provides AI-enhanced
threat analysis across all accumulated data. The surveillance agent maintains
persistent memory across system failures while the knowledge graph captures
relationships that no single sighting could reveal.This isn’t just a database with some AI on top—it’s a coordinated system where
each component enhances the others, creating emergent capabilities that scale
with your operations. Welcome to the real world.