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Your Name 2dabf8ef03 Phase 1-3: Add memory, skills, and improvement systems
- memory/: cross-session project memory with decisions, lessons, failures,
  architecture, and sessions categories. Each has format templates and
  lifecycle documentation.
- skills/: 12 reusable specialized methodologies (tdd, systematic-debugging,
  architecture-design, code-review, security-review, repository-analysis,
  failure-analysis, refactoring, test-analysis, incident-investigation,
  browser-automation, research). Each has frontmatter and methodology sections.
- improvements/: proposal-based improvement system requiring human approval.
- scripts/memory-lifecycle.sh: deterministic memory operations (recall, store,
  list, search, sessions, cleanup).
- scripts/test-memory-system.sh: 12 structural tests for all new systems.
- orchestrator.md: added Memory Recall stage, Learning and Memory Storage
  stage, Improvement Proposals workflow, memory/skills rules, and 3 new
  actions (A23-A27) to the action catalog. Updated behavioral acceptance test
  and state separation model.
- All 12 subagents: added Memory & Skills Awareness sections with recall
  and store instructions.
- docs/AGENT_ARCHITECTURE.md: documented memory, skills, and improvements
  systems (sections 12-14). Updated action count (27), state model, and
  remaining weaknesses.
- README.md: documented new systems, updated repository layout, added
  test-memory-system.sh documentation.

All 39 tests pass (16 architecture + 12 memory + 11 bootstrap).
2026-09-08 04:31:40 -04:00

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Project Memory

This directory contains the persistent memory of the project, organized by category.

Structure

memory/
├── decisions/          # Architectural and technical decisions (ADR-style)
├── lessons/            # Implementation lessons, patterns discovered
├── failures/           # Known failures, root causes, and how they were resolved
├── architecture/       # Current architectural decisions, component maps
├── sessions/           # Session state for cross-session continuity
└── MEMORY.md           # This file — index and conventions

Memory Lifecycle

Before significant work (RECALL)

  1. Search memory/decisions/ for relevant architectural decisions
  2. Search memory/lessons/ for similar past situations
  3. Search memory/failures/ for related incidents or recurring problems
  4. Check memory/sessions/ for unfinished work from previous sessions

During work (OBSERVE)

  1. Record meaningful decisions as they are made
  2. Track important discoveries
  3. Note failures and their root causes
  4. Identify assumptions that were validated or disproven

After work (LEARN + STORE)

  1. Extract reusable knowledge from what was learned
  2. Classify: is this a decision, lesson, or failure record?
  3. Store in the appropriate memory location
  4. Update MEMORY.md index if new categories emerge

Conventions

  • Memory entries are selective and useful — not every tool call or conversation
  • Each entry has: date, author (agent), context, content, relevance
  • Entries use deterministic markdown format (human-readable, version-controllable)
  • Entries reference source files with file:line when applicable
  • Trivial discoveries do not belong in memory
  • Entries that become stale are corrected by the owning agent, not deleted

Memory vs Task State

What Where
Architectural decisions memory/decisions/
Implementation lessons memory/lessons/
Known failures memory/failures/
Current architecture memory/architecture/
Session state memory/sessions/
Task reports AgentsReport/<agent>/ (ephemeral)
Repository knowledge .opencode/skills/ (per-repo)
Scratch / temp /tmp/opencode