The "AI agent forgets everything" problem, and a plain-text fix I've been building

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Summary

SAIPEN is a plain-text protocol using markdown files to solve the problem of AI agents forgetting context between sessions, allowing any file-reading AI to continue work seamlessly.

If you've used AI coding assistants for anything longer than a single session, you know the pain: close the chat, open a new one, and the AI has no idea what you were doing. You end up re-explaining the whole project every time. I built SAIPEN to solve this specifically — it's not a new AI, just a small protocol (plain markdown files in your project) that records what phase of work you're in, what's on the to-do board, and a running log of decisions. Any AI agent that can read files picks those up and continues seamlessly, cold, no memory required on the AI's side. Still actively testing it myself, happy to answer questions: [github.com/vacterro/saipen]
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