🗂️ Lesson 3 of 11 · 00:53:29 → 01:10:09

Give Your Agents a Memory

Agent-managed folders, gitignore partitioning, and living check-back files.

What you'll learn

  • Create agent-managed notes/goals folders the harness can read and write
  • Partition context with a global gitignore and tight token budgets
  • Use live check-back tracking files and native harness memory

In a nutshell

Agent-managed folders, gitignore partitioning, and living check-back files.

A richer, curated recap and references for this lesson are being prepared.

Key concepts

Agent-Managed Folders
Global Gitignore Partitioning
Targeted Matrix Refinement
Token Optimization
Agent First Extensibility Paradigm
Live Check-Back Tracking Files
Native Harness Memory Systems

Make it stick

Interactive exercises, a quiz, and hands-on challenges for this lesson are being prepared.

Moments worth pausing on

Screens captured from this part of the workshop — click any to open full size.

Terminal view showing hidden agent notes and goals directory setup steps
System configuration screen depicting global gitignore assignment prompt syntax
Markdown planning layout utilizing a numbered and indexed choice matrix
Browser output interface rendering the interactive line-editing trainer application tool
Selection screen choosing Forever Mode navigation parameters within the trainer workspace
CMUX command menu modal invoked via terminal macro short sequence
Split screen layout tracking active shell setup file edits inside secondary console split
Simultaneous active session view displaying embedded inline instance of LazyGit terminal client
Quick Markdown visualization component displaying project README document
Triple column workstation view with active workspace file manager and centralized auto-refresh tracking chart

Questions from the room

how do you keep goal grounded? do you use grill-me? then create a plan?Tyler Newman
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do you caveman? what if too much to read?Tyler Newman
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Is otter.ai still on?Yaniv Keinan
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Are you using the memory features of these harneses? I noticed they get out of date when I use them and shifted to beads but even that has some clunk still https://github.com/gastownhall/beadsrosa
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Do you mind your own conversations? Do you have anything that goes in and… Create skills, or… or reflects on… Your conversations, it automatically improves.Tyler Newman
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