planning-with-files

You can maintain task planning across sessions by using file-based artifacts like task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to store decisions, research, and activity logs. This enables session recovery and reloads previous state after interruptions.

Managing multi-step engineering projects requires persistent memory files that track phases and decisions. A file-based planning approach enforces phased execution and 1-tool-per-turn discipline, ensuring iterative decision-making preserves user goals over multi-day tasks.

Recovering project context after a break is handled through dedicated scripts and automatic recovery hooks. These re-load prior session state from planning files, restoring the exact phase, findings, and progress without losing established decisions.

File-based planning supports collaborative research tasks by storing context and findings in markdown files within a project directory. Team members can preserve shared context between sessions, ensuring continuous iterative decision-making.

No external dependencies are required to track project phases with markdown files. The solution operates independently using included scripts and templates to initialize planning sessions, requiring only a project directory to store the artifacts.