{"slug": "your-ai-coding-agent-forgets-everything-fix-it-with-a-free-obsidian-vault", "title": "Your AI Coding Agent Forgets Everything — Fix It With a Free Obsidian Vault", "summary": "A developer has released the Verified Memory Vault, a free Obsidian-based system that gives AI coding agents persistent memory across sessions. The vault uses a three-rule method—capture, daily notes, and durable facts—plus two Python scripts to check memory health and prevent accidental deletion. It is licensed CC BY 4.0 and available for download from GitHub.", "body_md": "Every AI coding agent starts every session with amnesia. The repository is\n\nthere, the instructions are there — but the knowledge from yesterday's session\n\nis gone: the workaround for that build error, your preference about naming,\n\nthe decision you made last week. So you explain it again. And again.\n\n**The fix is almost embarrassingly simple: give the agent a place to write\nthings down — and a way to check that the memory is actually healthy.**\n\n`CLAUDE.md`\n\nat the start of every session.**What is inside:**\n\n`00_Inbox`\n\n— everything lands here first (capture, don't sort)`01_Daily`\n\n— one note per session: what was done, decided, blocked`02_Templates`\n\n— daily note templates, English and German`CLAUDE.md`\n\n— the boot file every agent reads first: rules and memory protocol`MEMORY.md`\n\n— the durable memory: append-only, dated, one line per fact`tools/memory_check.py`\n\n— scores memory health on demand: protocol violations, dead links, bloat, inbox pressure. One command, honest report.`tools/memory_guard.py`\n\n— an optional git pre-commit hook that refuses the commit that deletes your agent's brain (the documented way agent memories die)**The whole method is three rules:**\n\n**Capture, don't sort.** New notes land in the inbox; sorting happens in the daily note, not while capturing.\n\n**Every session leaves a daily note.** So the next session resumes cold — without asking you where you left off.\n\n**Promote durable facts into MEMORY.md.** If a fact will matter in a later session, it belongs there: dated, one line, never rewritten.\n\n**Why \"self-checking\" matters:** folder structures rot silently. Memory gets bloated, links die, entries lose their dates — and nobody notices until the agent's context is full of junk. Run\n\n```\npython3 tools/memory_check.py\n```\n\nand you get a score, a list of concrete problems, and an exit code your CI or agent loop can act on. If you keep the vault in git (recommended), the guard hook blocks mass deletions of `MEMORY.md`\n\nbefore they happen.\n\n**Setup takes ten minutes.** Install Obsidian (free), download the vault,\n\nopen the folder as a vault — daily notes and templates are already\n\npreconfigured, no plugins to install. Claude Code reads `CLAUDE.md`\n\nautomatically; for other agents (Codex, Gemini CLI, …) point them at the file\n\nor copy it to their boot file, e.g. `AGENTS.md`\n\n. At the end of a session:\n\nfill the daily note, promote the durable facts, run the check once. That is\n\nthe whole habit.\n\n**And what it is not — honestly:** not a plugin collection\n\n(no community plugins, no vector database), not an autonomous system (it is a\n\n**structure with two small scripts, not a magic product**), and not a\n\nreplacement for your code repository — it is memory *about* the work. That is\n\nexactly why it keeps working: nothing to maintain, everything auditable in\n\nten minutes.\n\n**Why the license matters:** many “AI vaults” in circulation are\n\nnon-commercial. This one is licensed **CC BY 4.0** — free to use,\n\nincluding in your own business; only attribution is required. If you already run\n\na note system for yourself, [Second Brain Starter](https://secondbrainstarter.github.io/) is the human-side companion: the same three-folder philosophy, built for people who want a working note system in ten minutes.\n\n[Download Verified Memory Vault v0.9 (ZIP)](https://secondbrainstarter.github.io/verified-memory-vault/vmv-v0.9.zip)\n\nSource and updates: [github.com/secondbrainstarter/verified-memory-vault](https://github.com/secondbrainstarter/verified-memory-vault)\n\nQuestion, feedback or an idea? 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