Show HN: Directed Memory Bank – Tool-agnostic project context for AI agents
Directed Memory Bank Persistent project understanding for AI coding agents. Your AI agent starts every session knowing nothing. Directed Memory Bank (DMB) gives it structured project knowledge and working state — in plain markdown files that work with any tool.
- ▪Directed Memory Bank Persistent project understanding for AI coding agents.
- ▪Your AI agent starts every session knowing nothing.
- ▪Directed Memory Bank (DMB) gives it structured project knowledge and working state — in plain markdown files that work with any tool.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/pmikutel/directed-memory-bank |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:45:53 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T16:56:30.259Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T16:56:30.259Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | FM1v6ZSpE6G8 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Directed Memory Bank Persistent project understanding for AI coding agents. Your AI agent starts every session knowing nothing. Directed Memory Bank (DMB) gives it structured project knowledge and working state — in plain markdown files that work with any tool. Inspired by the Cline Memory Bank pattern. See Inspiration below. What changes You know the ritual. Coming back after the weekend, you open a new AI session and burn the first ten minutes re-explaining the stack, the auth flow, the deprecation plan, why library X is off the table — before you can finally ask the actual question. With DMB, that ritual is gone. The AI already knows the project. You just continue. Concretely: Sessions resume, they don't restart.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.