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title: "Operational Memory for Coding Agents"
description: "Understand operational memory for coding agents: task state, command outcomes, failures, decisions, handoffs, and next actions."
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# Operational Memory for Coding Agents

Operational memory is memory about work: what happened, what failed, what was decided, and what should happen next.

AICTX focuses on operational memory because coding agents often need execution context more than a broad transcript.

## Examples of operational memory

- active task and next action;
- command, test, build, and lint failures;
- decision records;
- handoff summaries;
- execution summaries;
- relevant repository areas.

## How AICTX records it

AICTX uses a resume/finalize lifecycle. A coding agent resumes from useful context before work and finalizes factual evidence after work.

Related docs:
- [Technical overview](/TECHNICAL_OVERVIEW.html)
- [Execution Summary](/EXECUTION_SUMMARY.html)
- [Failure Memory](/FAILURE_MEMORY.html)
- [Official AICTX project identity](/OFFICIAL_PROJECT.html)
