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Agent Memory Rules

Agent memory is one of three writes that need no "May I write?" The other two are named in CLAUDE.md:

  • Appends to production/session-state/active.md — the session checkpoint the hooks and the next session rely on. An append, never a rewrite of what is already there.
  • A subagent's new file at the path its orchestrating skill named. Only a new file under production/, docs/ or tests/, only at a path the skill's prompt names (never one you chose), and only inside a phase the user approved.

.claude/agent-memory/ is gitignored, per-agent, and never ships. Its exemption exists because the memory is the agent's own working notes about how to do its job, not a project artifact.

None of the three extends anywhere else. The Collaboration Protocol still governs every other write under the code root (src/, Assets/ or Source/), design/, docs/, production/ and assets/: ask first, naming the path. Writing a memory is never a substitute for asking, and a memory must never be used to record something the user declined to have written.

Never record a temporary absence as a durable fact

This is the failure this file exists to prevent, and this repo is unusually exposed to it.

CCGS ships as a template the user clones as their game. So on day one every agent observes the same things — no game code, no GDDs, no engine configured, no tests/performance/ — and every one of those observations is guaranteed to stop being true. A memory reading "this repo is the framework, not a game; perf requests have no target" is accurate when written and actively harmful two weeks later, when it tells a future run to return BLOCKED on a project that now has a build. The agent will not re-derive it; that is what memory is for.

So:

  • Prefer recording a method over a state. "Confirm an engine project and a captured profile exist before profiling; return BLOCKED naming what is missing rather than estimating" is durable. "There is no game here" is a timestamp.
  • If you must record a state, state what invalidates it, on the same line: INVALIDATED WHEN: project.yaml declares an engine, or the code root (src/, Assets/ or Source/) contains game code. A reader with no other context must be able to tell whether the note still holds.
  • Never record absence of a game, of assets, of tests or of config as a settled property of the project. Those are the states CCGS exists to move a user out of.

Disclose the write

Say in your response that you recorded a memory and where. An unmentioned write is indistinguishable from no write, and the user cannot correct a note they do not know exists — the same reason a skipped check has to announce itself (.claude/rules/skill-authoring.md, obligation 3).

Verify before you trust

A recalled memory reflects what was true when it was written. If it names a file, a path, a setting or a count, check that it still holds before acting on it. Memory is a starting point for investigation, never evidence.