feat(metadocs): living project memory distilled from sessions into a git repo - #25
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…git repo 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>
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meta docstool: a daily launchd job distills each session's dialogue (user messages + final answers — the surface layer the index already stores; tool noise never enters) into living documents in a git repo:<project>/bugs.md— how each fixed bug was recognized, diagnosed, fixed, proven fixed<project>/actions.md— procedures written so an agent asked again can follow the entry alone<project>/decisions.md— contested choices: decided what, why, rejected whatUSER.md— where the owner's information lives and how to find it (retrieval instructions only, never stored values)metadocs init <repo> [--projects git|all|name…] [--daily-at HH:MM] [--push]/run/enable/disable/status.Key properties (decision doc included):
claude -p --tools "" --strict-mcp-config, prompt on argv, empty cwd, dialogue pinned as data-not-instructions29 new tests; suite 293 passed.
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