memory-note

A memory note is know-how that finds you. An agent writes one with /abcd:memory add when it learns something worth keeping ("the person wants every question to carry an example"), together with the words that should bring it back. The same loader that brings in the project's rules brings the note back when a prompt matches those words, so no one has to remember to look it up. A note stays on the person's machine until it is promoted into the project's record, where every agent receives it.

When to use

For a lesson an agent would otherwise relearn: a preference of the person's, a quirk of the machine, a trap in the project's tooling.

When NOT to use

For outside material a decision may need to cite: that belongs in the library. For a rule every agent in the project must follow: promote the note, so it becomes part of the record.

Examples

• An agent notes that a test fails under heavy load and should be retried, recalled whenever a prompt mentions that test.
• A note that has been recalled in several sessions is promoted into the project's rules, so a second contributor's agent receives it too.

Related terms

• library: evidence you consult, where a memory note is know-how that finds you
• record: where a promoted note ends up