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State vs event split proposed to stop stale agent memory

What to do

Keep mutable state in MEMORY.md and append-only history in sessions, then symlink AGENTS.md to CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md.

Why

A practitioner proposes the layout to stop stale-memory retrieval. It is a single-author account, not a verified benchmark.

Read the source at reddit.com

What the research found

Reddit post proposes a State vs Event law: mutable living state in .ai/MEMORY.md and append-only history in sessions/, with AGENTS.md compiled and symlinked to CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md to stop stale-memory retrieval. Single-author practitioner account, not a verified benchmark.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Agent resurrected a retired webhook port because an archived post-mortem outranked active directives by keyword density 91%
Larger context windows do not fix stale memory retrieval 98%
Living state lives in .ai/MEMORY.md and history in append-only sessions/ 99%
AGENTS.md is kept under 50 lines and symlinked to CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md 98%

Evidence

reddit.com https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xcgwvb/the_state_vs_event_law_how_to_stop_ai_agent_stale

Actionability rated medium.