Development record

abcd has a place for a short note of where the work stands now, the local-tier handover file .abcd/.work.local/NEXT.md, but nothing keeps it: no command writes it, nothing says when it is stale, the PreCompact and Stop hooks write nothing durable to it, a session can overwrite it unread, and it is lost when the worktree holding it is removed. A short note of where the work stands, rewritten every session, is the one thing an outside agent-memory pattern adds over abcd's brief; abcd keeps it out of the repository on purpose, but leaves it unmaintained.