PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A migration agent works on a codebase across several sessions spread over a week. Each new session currently re-explores the repository and repeats earlier decisions before doing any new work.
How should the agent carry state between sessions?
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Answer: Memory files holding a progress log and feature checklist, read at each session start
The memory tool's multisession pattern has an initializer session set up a progress log and feature checklist, later sessions open by reading those files, and each session updates the log before ending. Compaction summarizes within a conversation and does not persist into a new session by itself.