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title: "Area Memory for AI Coding Agents"
description: "Learn how AICTX groups repo-local execution facts by repository area so coding agents can resume with more relevant operational memory."
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# Area Memory

Area Memory is an advanced continuity signal that groups observed execution facts by repository area.

It is secondary to Work State, Failure Memory, and RepoMap, but can improve context selection.

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## Area derivation

Examples:

```text
src/aictx/middleware.py -> src/aictx
tests/test_smoke.py -> tests/test_smoke.py
docs/USAGE.md -> docs/USAGE.md
no observed paths -> unknown
```

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## Artifact

```text
.aictx/area_memory/areas.json
```

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## Use

Area Memory can influence continuity context, strategy selection, failure lookup, and report visibility.

It is a deterministic hint, not semantic understanding.
