Building a Local Markdown Memory Layer for AI Agents

I kept running into the same problem with AI coding agents. The agents were getting better, but every new session still felt like starting from zero. I would explain the repo again. Then my preferences again. Then the decisions we already made. Then why we avoided some shortcut. Then the source material I wanted the agent to use. After doing that enough times, I started thinking less about "better prompts" and more about memory. Not memory as a magic model feature. Not memory hidden inside some