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Maintain persistent planning files like task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to track multi-step project phases, decisions, and results across multiple sessions. This workflow enforces early plan creation, reads prior context before tool use, and provides recovery hooks for seamless session continuation.

Recover context for long-running research tasks by reading structured markdown planning files that document previous phases and findings. The workflow implements explicit statuses and recovery hooks, allowing you to resume complex research exactly where the previous session left off without losing track of decisions or results.

Organize complex task planning with persistent file memory by automatically creating and updating task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md in your project root. These files track explicit workflow phases and statuses, enforcing early plan creation and ensuring all tool invocations reference documented decisions and context.

You do not need to manually create planning files before starting a multi-step workflow, as the process enforces early plan creation and automatically maintains task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md. Simply begin planning in your project root, and the files will be generated and updated as you research and progress through phases.

Complex project workflows lose track of decisions during context switching when they lack persistent file memory. By enforcing a structured workflow that reads planning files before tool use and records outcomes in findings.md and progress.md, all decisions and phases are preserved across context switches and long-running sessions.

You can use markdown files for project management in long-running work by maintaining task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md to track phases, decisions, and results. This provides a consistent, versioned planning workflow that supports multiple tool invocations and session recovery for complex tasks.