Keep a markdown wiki under docs/ so coding agents remember decisions across sessions
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-09
AI researcher Chris Paxton shares a practical trick: have your coding agent maintain a simple markdown wiki with crosslinks under docs/. In his experience this helps agents retain and carry forward past decisions over time and across models, addressing the core difficulty that models can't recall why code changed beyond what is written.
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