feat(metadocs): living project memory distilled from sessions into a git repo - #26
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…40K budget The first live run measured a 55K-char batch (75 turns) blowing straight through the 300s subprocess timeout: writing several complete documents takes minutes. Nightly unattended job — patience is free; a smaller batch plus a generous ceiling beats a fast failure that retries forever. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A daily launchd job reads the new dialogue out of the index (user messages
and final answers only — the surface layer the indexer already stores) and
keeps four documents current in a repo of the owner's choice: per-project
bugs.md (how each bug was recognized, diagnosed, fixed, proven fixed),
actions.md (procedures an agent can follow alone), decisions.md (what was
decided, why, what was rejected), and a global USER.md — a map of where the
owner's information lives and how to FIND it, retrieval instructions only.
Design decisions, recorded in docs/decisions/2026-07-31-metadocs-living-
project-memory.md: a git repo instead of a database (diff is review, revert
is undo, blame is audit, pushing the repo is team sharing); per-session
watermarks that advance only after a safe write (a crash re-processes,
never skips); a strict output protocol (complete files between markers, a
filename whitelist, garbage discarded whole); the share secret scanner as a
hard gate before any byte reaches the repo; the distiller caged exactly like
the share composer (claude -p, no tools, argv prompt, empty cwd, dialogue
pinned as data-not-instructions).
Selector: --projects git (default) tracks every project whose cwd is still
a git checkout; all, or explicit names. launchd over cron so a missed run
fires once on wake; the enabling user's PATH is frozen into the plist so
the distiller finds claude.
29 new tests; suite 293 passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com