Re:Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
by shepherdjerred on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:26PM
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Strong disagree on this.
I have Claude/Codex keep logs [1]. It's just prompted in my AGENTS.md [0].
> Every session must produce one of: a session log OR a plan, and end with a written summary appended to it. Default to a log; reserve plans for substantive design work.
It's incredibly valuable. For example today I started a few sessions off like this:
- What's the status of my work on Renovate?
- I was recently working on X, find that
- Did we fix the issue with backups? What are the next steps?
- This bug came up again. Didn't we fix it already?
I have Claude/Codex keep logs [1]. It's just prompted in my AGENTS.md [0].
> Every session must produce one of: a session log OR a plan, and end with a written summary appended to it. Default to a log; reserve plans for substantive design work.
It's incredibly valuable. For example today I started a few sessions off like this:
- What's the status of my work on Renovate?
- I was recently working on X, find that
- Did we fix the issue with backups? What are the next steps?
- This bug came up again. Didn't we fix it already?
[0]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/blob/main/AGENTS....
[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...