context-anchoring

Context anchoring persists feature decisions by creating living documentation in your repository. It captures decisions, constraints, and rationale as append-only logs, preserving knowledge for future work without re-deriving explanations.

Maintain a decision log by creating per-feature context docs that live natively in your git repository. Enrich the log by appending new decisions, constraints, and resolutions chronologically, ensuring a versioned history.

Resume a bugfix or refactor workflow by loading existing context docs. This reloads the feature's living history, allowing you to pick up where the last session ended without losing prior reasoning or constraints.

Context anchoring does not require a database. It stores feature documentation as git-native, append-only logs directly within your repository, requiring only a per-feature context base to function.

Yes, you can use context docs alongside design and implementation workflows. The living, versioned context supports feature design, implementation, bugfix, and refactor workflows by capturing what was decided and why.

Git-native append-only logs may not suit workflows needing frequent edits to past entries or non-textual binary assets. Context anchoring works best for chronological decision tracking rather than mutable documentation.