Placeholder copy. The structure is real; the words are not.
The problem
Every session with a coding agent started from nothing. The context that mattered — why a decision was made, what had already been tried, which approach had been rejected and for what reason — lived in chat transcripts that were gone the next morning.
The approach
A CLI that links a repository to a plain markdown vault outside it. Plans, handoffs and single-fact memories are files, not database rows, so they stay readable and diffable without the tool that wrote them.
The tradeoff
Markdown files have no schema, which makes them trivially portable and impossible
to query. Structured storage would have been faster to search and would have tied
the memory to one program. Portability won, and search is a grep away.
What I would do differently
Write the retrieval path before the write path. It was built the other way round, and the file format carries a couple of fields that nothing ever reads.