What do you put in AGENTS.md when a coding task gets messy?

Reddit r/openclaw 06/29/26, 06:04 PM Tools

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Summary

Discusses how developers using OpenClaw can keep context for AI coding agents by using a handoff document (AGENTS.md) to track goals, files, failures, and decisions in messy coding sessions.

For people using OpenClaw on longer coding tasks: how do you keep the next session grounded when the current one gets messy? I mean the point where the chat has old attempts, half-abandoned ideas, files that changed, and things the agent should not retry. Do you keep a plan.md, git diff, commits, scratchpad, repo notes, or some kind of handoff prompt? The handoff format I keep seeing from other AI coding users is something like: - current goal - files touched - what failed - what is known true - decisions made - what not to touch - next smallest test Curious what OpenClaw users actually do in practice.

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