What happens when a coding agent forgets why a change was rejected?
I tested what a fresh coding-agent session does when the repo remembers the code, but not the reasoning behind it.
Sep 8, 20265 min read19

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I tested what a fresh coding-agent session does when the repo remembers the code, but not the reasoning behind it.

I ran the same skill and the same task through different coding agents. The model mattered. But the agent harness changed the outcome far more than I expected.

How a simple rationale-capture skill evolved into a repository-native knowledge lifecycle without a database, daemon, or dashboard.

I turned four months of working with AI coding agents into an open-source skill for preserving the reasoning behind a codebase.
