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title: "AICTX Concepts"
description: "Core concepts behind AICTX: AI coding agent memory, repo-local memory, operational memory, and failure memory for coding agents."
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# AICTX Concepts

These pages explain AICTX concepts such as local memory for AI coding tools, repo-local memory, operational memory and failure memory.

AICTX uses these concepts narrowly and practically. It stores inspectable repository artifacts that help cooperating coding agents resume useful context across sessions.

- [Local memory for AI coding tools](/concepts/local-memory-for-ai-coding-tools.html)
- [AI coding agent memory](/concepts/ai-coding-agent-memory.html)
- [Repo-local memory](/concepts/repo-local-memory.html)
- [Operational memory](/concepts/operational-memory.html)
- [Failure memory for coding agents](/concepts/failure-memory-for-coding-agents.html)

For concrete artifacts, see [Work State](/WORK_STATE.html), [Failure Memory](/FAILURE_MEMORY.html), and [Handoffs](/HANDOFFS.html).
