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Project Notes

#066 0:14 Part of the Rysh video series

A shared scratchpad your agent reads and writes for the whole project.

Project Notes — 0:14 walkthrough

What you'll see

  1. Launch rysh and switch to prompt mode.
  2. Ask the agent to record a project decision -- the project_notes tool appends it to .rysh-notes.md.
  3. Back in shell mode, cat .rysh-notes.md to show the plain markdown file.
  4. Note it can be edited and committed alongside your code.

Commands shown

rysh
add a project note: we standardized on Go 1.22 and golangci-lint
cat .rysh-notes.md

Keys used

EnterEscape

Transcript

0:00A shared scratchpad your agent reads and writes for the whole project.

0:03Start rysh and drop into prompt mode.

0:08Ask the agent to note a project decision. The project_notes tool appends it to a shared .rysh-notes.md file.

0:22Back in shell mode, the notes live in a plain markdown file you can open, edit, and commit alongside your code.

0:32project_notes is durable, file-backed memory that every pane and every agent on the project can share.

Key takeaway
project_notes is file-backed memory in .rysh-notes.md that every pane and agent on the project shares.