Session Memory Architecture: The Pattern That Keeps Your Agent Coherent Across Context Resets

Your Claude Code agent ran perfectly for 45 minutes. Built context. Understood the codebase. Made decisions that depended on what it learned in the first 30 minutes. Then the context limit hit. The session compacted. Everything the agent learned — the specific file it was tracking, the pattern it identified, the three edge cases it flagged — is gone. The next session starts fresh. The agent reads CLAUDE.md, reads the task, and begins again with no knowledge of what the previous session accomplis