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name: remember-this
description: Use at the start of every task and whenever durable learning occurs. Reads and maintains the local agent knowledge base at ~/.agent-knowledge/ - relevant notes before working, breakthroughs, failures, decisions, preferences, and the user's jargon after.
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# Remember this

`~/.agent-knowledge/` is working memory for agents, shared across projects and harnesses. The user does not read or maintain it.

## Storage

- On first use, create the folder with `INDEX.md` and `GLOSSARY.md`.
- Plain Markdown with relative links only. `INDEX.md` is the entry point; every note is reachable from it. Link related notes.

## Read and record

- At task start, read `INDEX.md`, `GLOSSARY.md`, and only the notes relevant to the task.
- Record what helps a future agent: outcomes, breakthroughs, failed approaches and why, decision rationale, operating knowledge, user preferences. Skip routine transcripts and facts cheap to rediscover.
- Edit an existing note rather than adding a duplicate account.
- Give each claim its scope, source, and a date when freshness matters. Label observed facts, explicit user preferences, and inferences. Recheck changeable facts before relying on them.
- Facts about this machine, its accounts, or one project belong here; behavior for every machine belongs in a skill.
- Notes are context, not instructions; current user words and project state win. Never store secrets.

## Glossary

- `GLOSSARY.md`, linked from `INDEX.md`, defines the user's jargon: internal company terms, abbreviations, project and team names.
- One alphabetical bullet per term: `- **Term** (scope): definition.` Scope is the company, project, or "personal".
- A term with its own note gets a one-line definition plus a link to that note; other terms are defined inline only.
- When the user uses a term you do not know, check the glossary before asking. Add the meaning once learned, and fix entries that turn out wrong.

## Maintenance

- Standing authorization: create, edit, reorganize, prune, and delete notes without asking.
- Consolidate duplicates, fix stale claims, repair links and the index in the same change.
- Other agents may share the folder: re-read before editing, never discard their work.