session-startup

To align your AI agent with current project state, instruct it to read STATUS.md, MEMORY.md, and recent git commit history. The agent synthesizes a concise state brief and awaits your direction before executing tasks, preventing decisions based on stale context.

Your agent uses outdated project assumptions because it lacks current context after a long gap. Reading project status files like STATUS.md and MEMORY.md before resuming a session re-scans the project state to confirm priorities and prevent stale-context decisions.

The best way to re-orient an agent when resuming a coding session is to trigger a session recheck. This validates STATUS.md and MEMORY.md against recent commit history to generate a state brief, ensuring the agent references the latest project context before acting.

You need to maintain STATUS.md and MEMORY.md with your latest project updates. The agent reads these files alongside recent git commit history to synthesize a concise state brief, ensuring it validates current priorities and avoids outdated work before executing tasks.

Using git commit history alone is insufficient for full project state alignment. The agent must also read STATUS.md and MEMORY.md to synthesize a concise state brief, validating current priorities and preventing outdated work before awaiting user direction.