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Persist context across engineering sessions — save important decisions, gotchas, or patterns that should survive beyond the current conversation. For long-term workspace memory, prefer mempalace.

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Dev Remember

Derived from oh-my-claudecode (MIT, Yeachan Heo). Adapted for the EvoNexus Engineering Layer.

Quick context persistence for engineering sessions. Save decisions, gotchas, or patterns that should survive the current conversation but don't deserve a full memory entry in mempalace.

Use When

  • A non-obvious decision was made that future-you needs to remember
  • A gotcha was discovered (e.g., "this lib's v3 silently breaks auth")
  • A pattern was confirmed (e.g., "we always use Result not exceptions in this module")
  • Quick "remember this for next session" notes

Do Not Use When

  • The note is already covered by an agent's memory folder → write to .claude/agent-memory/{agent}/ instead
  • The note is shared workspace knowledge → write to memory/ (mempalace owns this)
  • The note is ephemeral (current conversation only) → don't persist it

Storage Location

Engineering layer notes go to the relevant agent's memory folder:

  • Architecture decision → .claude/agent-memory/apex-architect/
  • Bug pattern → .claude/agent-memory/hawk-debugger/
  • Test idiom → .claude/agent-memory/grid-tester/
  • etc.

If the note doesn't fit any single agent, save to workspace/development/research/[C]remember-{topic}-{date}.md.

Format

Each note has:

  • Title (1 line)
  • Why this matters (1-2 sentences)
  • Context (when does this apply?)
  • Reference (file:line, commit, or external link)

Mempalace Note

For long-term, cross-session, cross-agent shared memory, prefer mempalace:

  • It has structured drawers, rooms, and wings
  • It supports knowledge graph queries
  • It survives across sessions natively

dev-remember is for engineering-specific quick saves. mempalace is for everything else.

Pairs With

  • All 19 engineering agents (each has its own memory folder)
  • mempalace (for shared workspace memory)
  • prod-memory-management (the Clawdia skill that owns shared memory)