Tag: memory

All the articles with the tag "memory".

• It never opened the file I handed it

  11 Sep, 2026

  I built a hook that hands my agent the name of the right note before it answers. Then I judged all 1,234 firings blind. The name was right two times in three. The file got opened one time in four.

• You can't measure a memory hook by the times it spoke

  20 Jul, 2026

  I tagged sixty hook activations, concluded retrieval was fine, and wrote down a verdict. Then I measured the prompts where the hook said nothing at all, and the number flipped.

• The optimization you wrote isn't the one that runs

  19 Jun, 2026

  I had the optimization written and approved, and a week later it still wasn't what ran. The fix wasn't a better design. It was making the trigger deterministic and leaving the judgment to the model.

• Anatomy of a four-minute boot

  10 Jun, 2026

  Where my Claude Code sessions actually spent their first four minutes, and what cut it to thirty seconds without losing any context. Hooks were three seconds of the problem. The model's diligence was the rest.