pi-planning-with-files

You can maintain task progress across sessions by using persistent markdown files like task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to store plans, research, and state, ensuring continuity and mitigating volatile memory loss.

The best way to recover a task plan after a session clear is through file-based session recovery, which reads persistent markdown files to restore previous progress, decisions, and context automatically.

File-based planning prevents goal drift in multi-step research tasks by documenting the original task plan and ongoing findings in markdown, providing a persistent reference point to anchor agent decisions and track deviations.

No external dependencies are required to use markdown files for task management. The skill operates independently using standard markdown files to organize, track, and document complex multi-step tasks without additional packages.

You should use persistent markdown files instead of session memory for complex tasks with multiple steps, extensive research requirements, or when you need documentation that survives session resets and enables long-term progress tracking.

Yes, you can track research findings and execution progress separately by using distinct markdown files: findings.md stores discovered knowledge while progress.md logs completed steps, keeping documentation organized and accessible.