planning-with-files

Persistent planning maintains project context by creating durable markdown files like task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. You can restore context after a restart or clear by reading existing planning files and recent updates to deterministically continue work.

Tracking progress for multi-step research assignments involves recording phases, decisions, discoveries, and errors in durable markdown files. This creates persistent working memory that survives context loss and enables deterministic continuation across sessions.

Organize complex work by initializing and maintaining task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md files. These durable markdown files act as working memory to track phases, log errors, and preserve context throughout build-and-debug sessions.

Yes, context engineering with markdown files works for multi-step project management by moving plans, findings, and progress into durable files. It prevents complex tasks from collapsing under context loss by reading prior planning state before making decisions.

Yes, orjson is a required dependency for this persistent markdown planning approach. The scripts component relies on it to organize complex work and track progress across long tasks requiring session recovery.