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>>latchk+(OP)
I went through the whole readme first and kept wondering what problem the system aims to address. I understood that it is a distributed issue tracker. But how can that lead to a memory upgrade? It also hints at replacing markdown for plans.

So is the issue the format or lack of structure which a local database can bring in?

>>wowami+Pv
LLMs famously don't have a memory - every time you start a new conversation with the you are effectively resetting them to a blank slate.

Giving them somewhere to jot down notes is a surprisingly effective way of working around this limitation.

The simplest version of this is to let them read and write files. I often tell my coding agents "append things you figure out to notes.md as you are working" - then in future sessions I can tell them to read or search that file.

Beads is a much more structured way of achieving the same thing. I expect it works well partly because LLM training data makes them familiar with the issue/bug tracker style of working already.

>>simonw+mw
Using Claude code recently I was quite impressed by the TODO tool. It seemed like such a banal solution to the problem of keeping agents on track. But it works so well and allows even much smaller models to do well on long horizon tasks.

Even more impressive lately is how good the latest models are without anything keeping them on track!